Posts Tagged ‘humanitarian intervention’
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 [...]
Congo 101, or "Can't you clap?"
This has got to be the best quote yet to run in anyone’s Congo stories. From Stephanie McCrummen, who has been doing stellar work from this region for the Washington Post for years; she visited a town where a Congolese politician was announcing the Rwandan troops’ arrival to help Congolese soldiers. To a [...]
UN updates, and a kink fix
In case you were desperate to read the story I posted the wrong link for, here it is:
“Rwanda-Congo move isolates UN mission”
This story emerged out of nowhere, in conversations with people for a completely different story, about the arrest of Nkunda and what’s in all this for Rwanda.
No one at the UN knew anything about [...]
Rwanda and Congo: It's not what you think
In the last week, everything here has changed. Rwanda and Congo, former enemies, are the statecraft version of best buddies. Congo invited Rwandan troops across the border to chase Rwanda’s most hated rebel group, and in return Rwanda arrested one of its alleged erstwhile allies…
Here’s a story I did about the arrest of [...]
“After disasters and death tolls, world moves on”
It sounds like me being glib, using my unending cynicism to make a point, but that’s a real, it-ran-in-papers-and-on-the-web headline from the Associated Press. Which I think is amazing. So amazing I’ve had it open on my web browser for, apparently, two weeks.
It’s from May 15, just after the cyclone and the earthquake [...]
And next in the long list of Things That Won’t Help
You’ll forgive the cynicism, I’m sure–or maybe not, which is also legitimate–but here is a quick highlight of things in my inbox:
Writers in London “are calling for an end to the atrocities in Darfur.” Why? For the children, of course. “The world needs to wake up. For too long, it has [...]
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