The international community looked the other way while more than 800,000 people were murdered in Rwanda 10 years ago. Now, justice remains elusive and the harsh aftermath of orphans and HIV, psychological scars and physical scarcity threaten to prolong the killing. (more…)
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Genocide’s deadly residue
Posted: January 30, 2011 in Evidence MaterialTags: 1994, AIDS, Deadly, genocide, HIV, Holocaust, Hutu, ICTR, kibuye, Orphans, Rachel Rinaldo, Rwanda, Tutsi, United Nations, Women
Love, Death, and Commitment: Twenty Three Years of HIV and Genocide Prevention in Africa or “Passionate Unhinged”
Posted: January 10, 2011 in Genocide DenialTags: 1994, African Rights, Africans, American, ART, Catholic Church, European, Extermination, genocide, HIV, Homeland Security, Human rights, Human Rights Watch, Hutu, Hutu Power, ICTR, Idi Amin, Infections, Interahamwe, international community, Michigan, Minneapolis, Obote, Professor David Weissbrodt, Rwanda, Susan Allen, Tutsi, UNHCR, United Nations, University of Minnesota Law School, USA, Women, Zuzu
By Susan Allen, M.D., M.P.H.
Over the last 20 years, HIV emerged as the #1 cause of death in African adults, and the Rwanda genocide became the most concentrated mass murder in recorded history. Though one catastrophe surfaced slowly and inexorably while the other smoldered for years before exploding in 1994, the lessons learned are similar. (more…)
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