Posted on December 14, 2008 by sunkissed
I recently watched a CNN Special documentary by Chief International Correspondent Christian Amanpour, Scream Blood Murder. The documentary highlighted various genocides that occurred in the 20th century. It also gave Christian Amanpour a forum to lavish praise on various “heroes” within those genocidal contexts, who “screamed bloody murder” and yet their calls went unheeded by [...]
Filed under: Africa, genocide, rwanda | Tagged: Christian Amanpour, Dallaire, Kagame, RPF, rwanda, Scream Bloody Murder | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 13, 2008 by khante
On the 4th of December 2008, CNN aired a two-hour documentary on genocides titled: Scream Bloody Murder. In this documentary, the reporter, Christiane Amanpour, reminded the audience that a common strategy used by most genocidaires is to dehumanize their victims prior to killing them. In Cambodia for instance, the Khmer Rouge called their victims “Worms” [...]
Filed under: Africa, ethnic conflict, genocide, rwanda | Tagged: genocide, RPF, rwanda | 8 Comments »
Posted on December 5, 2008 by khante
A recent article from Belgian International Radio Television channel (RTBF) has reported that young Rwandan men are massively fleeing Rwanda to join the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)in eastern DRC. Unfortunately, only the French version of the article is available online and can be found here (http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/de-jeunes-hutu-joignent-les-fdlr-pour-fuir-loppression-de-kigali-60789 ). However, I have also [...]
Filed under: Africa, ethnic conflict, genocide, khante, rwanda | Tagged: congo, drc, FDLR | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 5, 2008 by sunkissed
Back To My Roots now has a new co-blogger, whose writing I am anxious to read on this blog. I know it will be very educational, and informative.
Hopefully now, readers will have more frequent information to read.
Looking forward to reading…
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