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Keywords: Rwanda

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Forgiving genocide

    • Bronwyn Lay
    • 14 May 2010
    3 Comments

    During the massacre Rurangwa's grandmother was murdered mid-prayer, various family members called to god for help, while the killers, fellow parishioners of the local church, struck their machetes until faith fell with precious bodies into a pile.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Inside the Zimbabwe blast furnace

    • Munyaradzi Makoni
    • 26 June 2009
    2 Comments

    Yesterday's political archrivals are today's strange bedfellows. The coalition government of Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Mutambara has halted Zimbabwe's hemorrhaging. Now that a veneer of progress exists, can Zimbabwe heal itself?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Miscellaneous notes on Rwanda

    • Shu Cai
    • 03 March 2009

    Poor Armadu .. His sixth son is crying .. his wife is pregnant with his seventh .. Armadu's belly must be full of a poor man's joy.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Uganda's aggressive peace

    • Ben Fraser
    • 14 October 2008
    1 Comment

    'Supernatural' rebel leader Alice Lakwena told her fighters that bullets would bounce off them and stones would become grenades when pitched at the enemy. For many Ugandans, religion was ballast against violence. For others it was an instrument of war.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Protection mechanisms for climate change victims

    • Maryanne Loughry
    • 17 March 2008

    The international community reacts rather than anticipates. It was only when hundreds of thousands of people were displaced after the Bolshevik revolution, that protection mechanisms such as the 1951 Refugee Convention began to be developed.

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  • RELIGION

    Book Review: Frank Brennan answers atheist manifestos

    • Frank Brennan
    • 05 June 2007
    6 Comments

    There can be no peace unless believers and atheists share an equal place in the public square of a free and democratic society.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Phil Glendenning

    • Phil Glendenning
    • 17 May 2007

    Phil Glendenning is the director of the Edmund Rice Centre. He is also the National President of Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR).

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    A day to remember the Holocaust

    • Michael Danby
    • 27 February 2007
    6 Comments

    In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated 27 January as Holocaust Remembrance Day. A resolution rejected Holocaust denial, together with all manifestations of religious intolerance or violence based on ethnicity or belief.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    There's no bacon in Adjumani

    • Bryan Pipins
    • 23 December 2006

    An Australian aid worker escapes the Sharia prohibition of pork and wine when he moves from Darfur to Northern Uganda. But his arrival coincides with the outbreak of swine fever and the drying up of the bacon supply.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The new anti-Semitism

    • Anthony Ham
    • 10 July 2006

    We have to take racism seriously, says Anthony Ham.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Surviving Africa

    • Peter Browne
    • 04 July 2006

    A remarkably peaceful change of government in Kenya could significantly improve the lives of refugees in the country’s remote camps. But Australia and other western countries must play a part.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    In adversity, strength

    • Kent Rosenthal
    • 26 June 2006

    The people of Colombia’s Cacarica River Basin face an uncertain future.

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