Archive for the ‘Genocide survivors’ Category
Friday, August 20th, 2010
BY MIMI WHITEFIELD
Samuel Dusengiyumva, the son of a pastor and a nurse, was 13 years old in the spring of 1994, when more than 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered in a 100-day killing spree of unthinkable proportions. His family — mother, father, siblings — was wiped out by the Rwandan genocide.
Dusengiyumva recalls being stopped with a younger brother at one of the roadblocks set up around the country.
“I tried to run with my brother but he couldn’t make it,” he says. “And they took him and killed him. I had aunties and grandfathers and they were all killed.”
Afterward, he spent a long time thinking about whether he would be “a useless person,” kill himself or “try to lead a real life.”
Dusengiyumva chose to put his life back together through education — finishing school and studying to become a lawyer — and that decision led him to his current role: country manager for a computer program that aims to put a laptop in the hands of every school-age child in Rwanda.
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Leaders in Ardamata IDP camp, near El Geneina, West Darfur, have approached UNAMID with reports that a number of residents who left the camps to cultivate crops on their lands were harassed by armed men.
IDPs claimed that they were physically assaulted in four locations less than 10 kilometers outside El Geneina. The armed men reportedly destroyed the seedlings and replanted the farmlands, having claimed them as their own.
With the beginning of the rainy season this month, IDPs all over Darfur have received seeds and farm tools and many felt safe enough to leave the camps regularly to farm their lands. UNAMID brought the matter to the attention of local authorities and will meet with them about helping to prevent similar incidents in the future in order to encourage IDPs to voluntarily return to their regions.
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expressed concern about the humanitarian conditions in the areas Jebel Marra, Jebel Moon and Jebel Si, as a result of clashes between government forces and the Justice and Equality Movement in recent months. The fighting has led to further displacement of the population of Darfur. The ICRC pointed out that it has not delivered any aid there and has difficulty accessing these areas following renewed fighting late last February, and insecurity resulting from the spread of banditry and crime.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
15/07-2010 07:35, Bishkek – News Agency “24.kg”, by Daniyar KARIMOV
The United States of America are concerned over human rights violations in southern Kyrgyzstan. This was stated Wednesday at a press conference in 24.kg news agency by Special Assistant to U.S. President for National Security Affairs, Michael McFaul.
“Especially it concerns ethnic Uzbeks”, he stressed.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
July 15, 2010
Megan Flemming is a policy analyst at the Save Darfur Coalition.
On Monday, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber judges issued a second arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, this time for three counts of genocide. Darfur activist groups here in the U.S. welcomed the news while calling on world leaders to prevent the type of retaliation against the people of Darfur that Bashir masterminded after the first arrest warrant in March 2009. As the world responds to the ICC’s milestone decision, it’s worth highlighting why this case and the overall push for justice for Darfur is so essential and urgent: without accountability, a negotiated peace will be little more than a long-term ceasefire.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
By JENNY BARCHFIELD
The Associated Press
PARIS — The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court on Tuesday called the new genocide charges filed against Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir the “last chance to stop genocide in Darfur.”
International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo gestures during a press conference, in Paris, Tuesday July 13, 2010. Ocampo reacts to the court’s long-sought decision to hand Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir charges of genocide in Darfur. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Luis Moreno Ocampo said the 10-judge panel’s decision, announced Monday, to charge al-Bashir with three counts of genocide in Darfur “will force the world to pay attention to the reality” on the ground in the embattled western Sudanese province. He added he hoped it would also cement the international community’s will to see the Sudanese leader tried in The Hague.
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Op-Ed Contributors
By DAVE EGGERS and JOHN PRENDERGAST
Published: July 12, 2010
FOR many good reasons, Americans are doubting our ability as a nation to positively influence events abroad. We’re involved in two conflicts with dubious outcomes and we’ve begun to question whether any step we take, anywhere, will be the right one. But it was not long ago that the United States intervened abroad in a bold way that led to undeniably positive results.
From 1983 to 2005, more than two million people died and four million were forced from their homes in southern Sudan during a war between the government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Shortly after George W. Bush entered the White House, he decided he would put the full diplomatic leverage of the United States to work in ending this war, one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century.
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Xanthos/News
Jacqueline Murekatete, a survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, is one of the final five nominees and grant recipients of the 2010 VH1 Do Something Awards.
Celebrities from TV, movies and music take the stage at tomorrow night’s “Do Something Awards,” but the real stars of the show aren’t in entertainment.
Jacqueline Murekatete, a Rwandan native who now calls Brooklyn home, is one of five young finalists being celebrated for social activism on the show, which airs live from Hollywood on VH1. Her Manhattan-based charity, Jacqueline’s Human Rights Corner, educates others about genocide
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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| TORONTO – For the past 15 years, survivors of the Srebrenica genocide have been seeking justice for the 8,372 men and boys killed by Bosnian Serb forces in what was supposed to be a United Nations protected enclave. Their witness accounts of this systematic, civilian massacre helped prosecutors convict seven men in The Hague earlier this month. Two former security officers received life in prison, and were handed down rare genocide convictions by a three-judge panel in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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Survivors of violence in Bosnia meet in Colonie on anniversary of killings
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By PAUL GRONDAHL, Staff writer
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First published: Saturday, July 3, 2010 |
| ALBANY– Dervisa Mujanovic was 10 years old and living in Srebrenica, Bosnia, when soldiers from the Serbian Army, who were Orthodox Christians, unleashed their killing machine of ethnic cleansing on Bosnian Muslims.She had only a young girl’s limited understanding of the mass murder. She fainted from hunger in a refugee camp and had to shave off her long hair when she contracted head lice because of the unsanitary conditions.
Mujanovic did not comprehend until many years later the extent of the brutality suffered by the Bosnians.
On a single day, July 11, 1995, the Serb fighters killed an estimated 8,000 Muslim men and boys. It was the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. A United Nations peacekeeping force failed to prevent the carnage.
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