Israel Charny rightly reminds us of a very important concept: personal interests can ultimately lead many people who are not initially bigoted or violent into participating in the actual commission of genocide. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘NGOs’
Friends of evil (Chapter 14): A Final Appeal and Conclusion
Posted: August 28, 2013 in BookTags: Denial, genocide, Israel Charny, NGOs, Rwanda
Friends of evil (Chapter 10): Fast moves from European NGOS to rehabilitate felons
Posted: August 28, 2013 in BookTags: genocide, NGOs, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Tanzania, Twagiramungu
As the genocide perpetrators regrouped in the fall of 1994 to pursue their cause from their base in the refugee camps of eastern Zaire, they were fortunate to have friends in the Europe who were ready, able and willing to help on the crucial media front. (more…)
Friends of evil (Chapter 8): Rwandan civil society in exile–villains posturing as victims
Posted: August 28, 2013 in BookTags: Bukavu, Civil society, genocide, Goma, NGOs, Rwanda
After the departure of Frans Van Hoof and Ivan Godfroid, the Rwandan NGOs in areas controlled by the genocidal interim government effectively went to work. (more…)
Friends of evil (Chapter 7) Complicity between the NGOs and the genocidaires
Posted: August 28, 2013 in BookTags: Etienne Karekezi, EUROSTEP, genocide, NGOs, Rwanda, VOA
The complicity between the genocidaires and various Europeans, both individuals and NGOs, whose interests are not very well known, has a long history. (more…)
Revising genocide’s truth, in God’s name
Posted: April 5, 2011 in Genocide DenialTags: Bihuzo, Bukavu, Cardinal Danneels, Congregation, Democratic republic of Congo, Father Philippe de Dorlodot, Filip Reyntjens, François-Xavier Mitima, France, Genocidaires, genocide, GRAPES, Hutu, Interahamwe, International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda, Jeremie, Jesuit, Justice et Paix, Kinshasa, Missionaries of Africa, Munzihirwa, NGOs, Palestinians, Pax Christi, Rally for the Return of Refugees and Democracy, RDR, Remy Mitima, Rwanda, Serge Desouter, Tutsi, UNHCR, Zaire
By Tom Ndahiro
One of the world’s great under appreciated scandals is the role of Catholic Church officials in the Rwandan genocide of 1994, its bloody aftermath in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the continuing campaign to popularize a revisionist history of the genocide that would advance the malign agenda of those who actively believe that the ‘job is not complete.’ (more…)
New Humanitarianism with Old Problems: The Forgotten Lesson of Rwanda
Posted: January 31, 2011 in Evidence MaterialTags: African Rights, Community, Darfur, DRC, Feinstein International Center, genocide, Humanitarianism, Hutu, Indifference, Interahamwe, International, Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, Killers, Linda Melvern, NGOs, Philip Gourevitch, Princeton University Press, R2P, Rwanda, Samantha Power, Survivors, Tutsi
By Madalena Elena Nan–OCTOBER 4, 2010
“The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.” (more…)
INTELLIGENCE AT UN HEADQUARTERS? The Information and Research Unit and the Intervention in Eastern Zaire 1996
Posted: January 29, 2011 in Evidence MaterialTags: 1994, 1996, Bagosora, Belgium, Catholic Church, Eastern Zaire, France, Hutu, Intelligence, Interahamwe, New York, NGOs, Peace keepers, Rwanda, Rwanda Genocide, UNHCR, United Nations, United States of America
First published in Intelligence and National Security, Vol.20, No.3, September 2005, pp.440 – 465.
For most of its history the United Nations was reluctant to deal with intelligence, and major powers were reluctant to share intelligence with it. But as the UN’s peacekeeping operations intensified in some of the world’s hot spots in the early 1990s, the UN found it both necessary and wise to create an information analysis capability at UN headquarters in New York. (more…)
UNHCR and Rwandan Refugees in Zaire (1994-1997)
Posted: December 28, 2010 in Genocide DenialTags: 1994, 1997, Hutu, Interahamwe, NGOs, Refugees, Refugees Protocol, Rwanda, Sreeram Chaulia, Tutsi Genocide, UNHCR, United Nations, Zaire
An Overview of the Genocide in Rwanda
Posted: October 24, 2010 in Evidence MaterialTags: Armenian Genocide, Belgium, Catholic Church, France, Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Hutu, ICTR, Interahamwe, NGOs, Rwanda, Tutsi, Tutsi Genocide, United Nations, Victoire Ingabire
Genocide never happens by chance. Events in Rwanda, 1994, were no exception. For over a century the context of ethnic separation was set. For over thirty years divisions deepened and the political divide widened. For more than three years the struggle for power provided the excuse for those wishing to bring disaster. (more…)
Rwanda Fallout: Denial, Anger
Posted: October 24, 2010 in Evidence MaterialTags: Armenian Genocide, Belgium, France, Genocide 1994, Genocide Denial, Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Hutu, Interahamwe, John Stackhouse, NGOs, Rwanda, Tutsi Genocide
By John Stackhouse Published on Saturday, July 8, 2000 in the Toronto Globe & Mail
Canada’s Stephen Lewis launched a stinging rebuke against U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the Roman Catholic Church yesterday after the United States and the Vatican played down a report that condemns their role — along with France, Belgium and the Anglican Church — in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. (more…)
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