Tag / Rwanda
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Demanding A Democratic Response To Neoconservatism
The 2020 election cycle has arrived and the Democrats need a message. With a Republican incumbent (who may be in for a primary challenge), all eyes are on the Democratic field. All Democrats can agree on one thing: at least their nominee won’t be Trump. But such a declaration dismisses the meaningful policy discussions that…
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Complicity in Genocide: Pascal Simbikangwa in Paris
BY SONYA SCHOENBERGER In a 100-day period between April and mid-July 1994, members Rwanda’s Hutu ethnic majority slaughtered nearly a million Tutsi and moderate Hutu with clubs and machetes. Twenty years later, one of the alleged orchestrators of the genocide is on trial in Paris. Pascal Simikangwa, former intelligence chief of the Rwandan National Forces, faces…
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The Case Against Susan Rice
For months now, the steady drumbeat of criticism against UN Ambassador Susan Rice has been focused on her bungled handling of the Benghazi attacks. However, as the New York Times reported on Monday, Rice’s failure as a civil servant extends beyond what she said in a Meet the Press interview. Rice, on the shortlist to…
