Years after reporting on a broken country,a journalist revisits Rwanda to see its famous gorillas – and discovers a land in the midst of renewal.
They are the innocents,and it is never their fight. But it is the children of conflict who always suffer the most.
Claudine Gay came under fire for her lawyerly answers to a question about whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate Harvard’s code of conduct.
Everyone in Rwanda knew travelling after dark was inviting trouble. I’d taken a risk for a trivial reason,and now a large man with an assault rifle was at the window of the car,making demands.
My grandmother Sonja’s life story,particularly her escape from Nazi Germany,lies at the heart of my family’s collective identity. I had long accepted that the voices of her murdered family were permanently silenced. I was wrong.
On this day – July 11 – 28 years ago,Bosnian Serb forces murdered thousands of Bosniak boys and men in Srebrenica. That slaughter should continue to inspire us to fight extremism wherever we find it.
A Sydney-based online store has been openly selling Ustasha-themed memorabilia and images of World War II Croatian dictator Ante Pavelic.
The families of the Holocaust survivors saved by Oskar Schindler paid tribute to the Schindler’s Ark author this week.
Rwanda says it will release Paul Rusesabagina,a former hotel manager portrayed as a hero in a film about the 1994 genocide.
In the final decision of the UN-backed war crimes tribunal,Khieu Samphan failed to overturn convictions for his part in one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century.
Cases against military figures including junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing are being prepared to hand to the Australian Federal Police.