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1. Des Nyamhiga en colere: une ressource inestimee pour la construction de la paix et le developpement durables

Author

Mukakayumba, Edith and Taylor, Donald M.

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Women refugees -- Political activity -- Social aspects, Literature/writing, Women's issues/gender studies, Political activity, Social aspects
Abstract

The author met with four Rwanda refugees in Montreal in June 2000 and relates their sad story of war and violence. They are angry now and want to start a [...]

Published
2000

2. Can you love a child of rape? At least 5,000 Rwandan women have borne the children of their attackers. Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik documents their stories of survival--and the haunting questions that remain. See more at MotherJones.com

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Rape victims -- Social aspects -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Child sexual abuse -- Social aspects, General interest, Political science, Social sciences, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Social aspects
Abstract

Valentine with her daughters, Amelie and Inez When they attacked my husband's house I was two months pregnant, carrying a little girl. The head of the militias was ruthless and [...]

Published
2009

3. Rwanda & the charity industrial complex (part 2)

Author

Kron, Josh

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, International relief organizations -- Officials and employees -- Management -- Social aspects -- Public opinion, Humanitarian workers -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Public opinion, International relief -- Rwanda -- Social aspects, General interest, Government, Business, international, Company business management, Management, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Social aspects, Public opinion, Officials and employees
Abstract

Josh Kron concludes his two-part article on the psyche, culture, and behaviour of NGOs in Rwanda. He quotes one Rwandese, Civiliste Guillaume, as saying: 'In Rwanda, we have some friends [...]

Published
2009

4. All the 'Bourgmestre's' men: making sense of genocide in Rwanda

Author

Wagner, Michele D.

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Mass murder -- Social aspects, Crimes against humanity -- Social aspects, Genocide -- Social aspects, Economics, Political science, Regional focus/area studies, Social aspects
Abstract

By the time I arrived in Rwanda in early October 1994 as a UN human rights monitor, genocide had become a mundane element of daily life. The evidence was strewn [...]

Published
1998

5. Continued incursions by former government forces: UNAMIR gets a final extension and adjusted mandate

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, United Nations -- International relations -- Statistics -- Social aspects, Refugees, Rwandan -- Statistics -- Social aspects, International relations, Political science, Statistics, Social aspects
Abstract

Concerned about continuing reports of 'military preparations and incursions into Rwanda by elements of the former regime', and stressing the importance of the voluntary, safe repatriation of refugees, the Security [...]

Published
1996

6. The Banality of 'Ethnic War'

Author

Mueller, John

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Yugoslavia -- Social aspects, War and society -- Research -- Social aspects, War -- Research -- Social aspects, Violence -- Social aspects -- Research, Ethnic relations -- Social aspects -- Research, Genocide -- Rwanda -- Social aspects -- Research, International relations, Social aspects, Research
Abstract

On December 7, 1941, as it is commonly put, 'the Japanese' attacked Pearl Harbor. No one of course takes this expression literally to suggest that the entire population of Japan, [...]

Published
2000

7. Rwanda's Tangled Web

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Ethnic relations -- Rwanda -- Social aspects, Genocide -- Rwanda -- Social aspects, Hate crimes -- Rwanda -- Social aspects, Science and technology, Social sciences, Social aspects
Abstract

'Hate Crimes' by Ren[acute{e}] Lemarchand, in Transition (2000: Nos. 81-82), 69 Dunster St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138. In cases of genocide such as the 1994 bloodbath in Rwanda, in which more [...]

Published
2000

8. A Vision to Keep

Author

Marchetti, Domenica

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Charities -- Finance -- Social aspects, Sociology and social work, Company financing, Finance, Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: Domenica Marchetti One year after its founder's death, an effort known as Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project continues. David Jiranek started the program in 2000 to [...]

Published
2004

9. Search for speed and reconciliation; Rwanda's genocide

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Genocide -- Cases -- Social aspects, Business, Economics, Business, international, Company legal issue, Social aspects, Cases
Abstract

House-building, as prisoners wait, and wait, for their trial Rwanda resorts to a traditional system to try those accused of genocide PEOPLE from all walks of life, from university professors [...]

Published
2001

10. Country profile: Rwanda

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Social sciences, Social aspects
Abstract

SCATTERED across Emelienne's garden lie her husband's law books, neatly annotated in the margins. On the floor of an empty room is a child's shoe. The roof is smashed in, [...]

Published
1996

11. From parachuting into madness. ('94)

Author

Wooten, Jim

Subjects
Congo (Kinshasa) -- Social aspects, Rwanda -- Social aspects, Foreign correspondents -- Records and correspondence -- Social aspects, Refugees -- Rwanda -- Social aspects, Journalism -- Objectivity, Objectivity -- Social aspects, Atrocities -- Social aspects, Mass communications, Publishing industry, Social aspects, Records and correspondence
Abstract

We landed in mid-morning, schlepped our gear across the tarmac, strolled to the airport fence -- and watched a little girl die. She was about six years old but so [...]

Published
2001

12. Rwanda filmmakers see hope as fest, coin grow

Author

Vourlias, Christopher

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Filmmakers -- Works -- Social aspects -- Appreciation, Film festivals -- Appreciation -- Social aspects, Arts and entertainment industries, Business, Social aspects, Works, Appreciation
Abstract

The red carpet was rolled out, the Primus beer was on ice and the young stars of Rwandan film paraded into the Kigali Serena Hotel, where actors, filmmakers and foreign [...]

Published
2009

13. Reconstruction in Rwanda

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, International relations, Political science, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Social aspects
Abstract

Shahryar M. Khan recalls Rwanda at the time of UNAMIR, in a conversation with Xi Pei First of all, please imagine a country which has been completely devastated. There was [...]

Published
1997

14. Rwanda returns to life

Author

Misser, Francois

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Civil war -- Evaluation -- Rwanda -- Social aspects, Business, Business, international, Social aspects, Evaluation
Abstract

Our Central African Correspondent, Francois Misser, just back from a fact-finding trip to Rwanda, says that although daily life is returning to normal in that devastated country, the new administration [...]

Published
1994

15. Tutsi woman, Nyamata Rwanda, by Adam Buchanan

Author

Huey-Heck, Lois

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Images, Photographic -- Evaluation -- Social aspects, Photographs -- Evaluation -- Social aspects, Genocide -- Portrayals -- Social aspects, Philosophy and religion, Evaluation, Social aspects, Portrayals
Abstract

From the barrier of window frame and metal bars to the contrast between the muted pastel colors and the stark silhouette, this photo tells a story of tragedy. In these [...]

Published
2008

16. People killing people they knew: J. T. Rogers' riveting play 'The Overwhelming' looks at the days preceding the Rwandan genocide

Author

Blaney, Retta

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, The Overwhelming (Play) -- Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists -- Works -- Social aspects, Political violence -- Social aspects, Genocide -- Portrayals -- Social aspects, Philosophy and religion, Criticism and interpretation, Social aspects, Works, Portrayals
Abstract

I don't know when I've seen a new drama as compelling as 'The Overwhelming.' I was riveted for the entire two hours and 20 minutes of this story centered on [...]

Published
2007

17. 'In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.'

Subjects
Burundi -- Social aspects, Rwanda -- Social aspects, Genocide -- Rwanda -- Social aspects, International relations, Political science, Social aspects
Abstract

During an eight-nation tour of east and central Africa-Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, the United Republic of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Eritrea - the Secretary-General in May frontally addressed the United [...]

Published
1998

18. Relief is on the way; a new mission may air-drop aid to the refugees

Author

Wallace, Bruce

Subjects
Congo (Kinshasa) -- Social aspects, Canada -- International relations, Rwanda -- Social aspects, Central Africa -- International relations, International relief -- Planning -- Sub-Saharan Africa, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Company business planning, Planning, Social aspects, International relations
Abstract

The time of death for Ottawa's ambitious plans to lead a muscular multinational humanitarian force into eastern Zaire can probably be pegged with fair accuracy at 3 p.m. Kigali time [...]

Published
1996

19. Life after death in a Rwanda Catholic parish

Author

Collins, Carole

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Catholic Church in Rwanda -- Evaluation -- Social aspects, Genocide -- Rwanda -- Social aspects, Philosophy and religion, Evaluation, Social aspects
Abstract

KIGALI, Rwanda--How could genocide occur in a nation more than 70 percent Christian and 60 percent Catholic? Why were so many killed inside churches and church compounds, usually places of [...]

Published
1995

20. Relief versus development

Author

Gibbs, Sam and Latham, Antony

Subjects
Tanzania -- Social aspects, Rwanda -- Social aspects, Health, Social aspects
Abstract

It is now well over a year since the refugees came from Rwanda. There are currently about 450000 of them. The original population of this remote and rather inaccessible district [...]

Published
1995

21. Rwanda after the holocaust

Author

Brandon, Sydney and Craig, Kenneth

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Refugees -- Rwanda -- Social aspects, Children -- Rwanda -- Social aspects, Massacres -- Rwanda -- Social aspects, Health, Social aspects
Abstract

We were invited by a small charity called Friends in the West to visit Rwanda to advise on a training programme for those dealing with the victims of violence. The [...]

Published
1994

22. Rwanda needs still more: not just food and water, but peacekeepers who will stay

Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects, Refugees, Rwandan -- Psychological aspects -- Social aspects, Peacekeeping forces -- Management -- Psychological aspects -- Social aspects, Business, Economics, Business, international, Company business management, Management, Psychological aspects, Social aspects
Abstract

HIGH-PROTEIN biscuits, water pumps, plastic sheeting, medical kits, spanking-new trucks: the offerings borne by military aircraft that touched down this week in Rwanda (see page 42) show that the rich [...]

Published
1994

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