'We have to kill Tutsis wherever they are'

May 16, 2008

Hundreds of thousands of people were massacred during the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda. Now, in the crucible of the ensuing war in neighbouring Congo, the fugitive killers are training their children to carry on the Hutu mission of extermination, and awaiting their opportunity to return to the mother country….

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/16/congo.rwanda
 

War Crimes Go Unpunished in Guatemala

Over a decade after the end of Guatemala's armed conflict, many of those responsible for its most brutal crimes continue to evade criminal prosecution....

www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/war-crimes-go-unpunished-guatemala-20080131

 
Amnesty Int'l: “Migrants’ rights are human rights”

One person in every 35 lives outside the country in which they were born. Many of those are migrant workers or their family members. Reasons for migration can vary between the need to escape poverty, inequality and conflict, the desire to pursue better work and educational opportunities, or even wanting to live in a cleaner environment or better climate....

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“Making Sense of Darfur”

Making Sense of Darfur, Books and Articles Relevant to Darfur, Socio-economic Issues: Online Scholarly Resources on Darfur

posted by Alex de Waal

This posting is a guide to three online sources of scholarly material on Darfur (and Sudan in general) that provide different resources for the student or professor.

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"Women for Women in the Congo"

JERRY FOWLER: My guest today is Christine Karumba. She's Country Director in the Democratic Republic of Congo for Women for Women International. Christine, welcome to the program.

by Jerry Fowler

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"Armenian Genocide"

Robert Fisk: A reign of terror which history has chosen to neglect

The story of the last century's first Holocaust – Winston Churchill used this very word about the Armenian genocide years before the Nazi murder of six million Jews – is well known, despite the refusal of modern-day Turkey to acknowledge the facts. Nor are the parallels with Nazi Germany's persecution of the Jews idle ones.

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