Posts Tagged ‘genocide’
Obama names Director of War Atrocities, croons to advocates, “Baby, it’s not how it sounds, I swear!”
It’s a mini-round up of the two most recent things I’ve read: One, Obama now has a war atrocities czar — formally known as the Director of War Atrocities and Civilian Protection. At least that’s what the Daily Beast is calling David Pressman’s new job, in an article that I found pretty confusing. Let’s hope [...]
April showers in Kigali
Two things happen in April in Rwanda: One, the country marks the anniversary of the genocide. Two, it rains. A lot. It’s the rainy season here, and at just about this time — 4:30 pm — there’s a crack of thunder, and the sky spills. Usually, it comes out of nowhere, and in three seconds, [...]
Remembering the genocide: Three snapshots
I am hoping to put together a quick multimedia thing to share tomorrow or Friday. Meantime, here are three snapshots from today’s Walk to Remember and the memorial at Amahoro Stadium. A young man in the purple memorial scarf looks at the crowd preparing to walk from Parliament to the stadium. An old woman and [...]
Muraho! And with that: How should we cover the genocide commemoration?
I’ve finally landed back in Kigali, where I’ll be for the foreseeable future. That silence? That was me packing up my life… Shortly, Rwanda will be consumed by remembering the 1994 genocide. The stories and photographs are already starting to appear. Today, the NYT Lens Blog has some portraits of survivors, some of the rather [...]
Does the Holocaust teach us anything about modern-day genocide? (Oh, and happy new year)
Things are quiet on this blog while we’re preparing for a server transfer and redesign. But here’s a nice graph from a piece in Foreign Policy last month, on whether the Holocaust is the right tool for teaching us about genocide (or helping us identify early warning signs, etc.). The whole piece is worth a [...]
(Eat) Fast for Darfur
In February, when I was in Kigali, a Rwandan friend came over for dinner, and he was surprised that I was eating. He was earlier at a home where a woman turned down a Fanta and some food. “You’re a good eater,” he told her, confused. “What’s going on?” She told him she was partaking [...]
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