A short roll call of the most brutal international barbarities in living memory- including the Holocaust, Pol Pot's Cambodian genocide, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, South African apartheid, and Hutu-Tutsi massacres in Rwanda- is enough to provide insights into the complexity and magnitude of the forgiveness problem. An interesting link between Biggar's theological and Trimble's political presentations was that both speakers referred to the parable of the prodigal son and therefore, by implication, to the centrality of the teachings of Jesus on the obligation to forgive wrongdoers.
During those same years," writes Dr. [Alex Grobman], "there were murderous coups in Africa, genocide in Rwanda, a decadelong campaign of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, the occupation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, genocide in Timor and Darfur. From the Six Day War to 1991, Israel was under incessant attack at the UN. A focus of the book is on UN Resolution 3373, the infamous "Zionist equals racism" statement of 1975 (which is infelicitously referred to in the book as "Z=R"). "What has become of the founders' dream?" Neuer asked. "With terrible lies and moral inversion, it is being turned into a nightmare."
When Saddam Hussein dropped poison gas on the Kurds in the town of Halabja in 1988, he called it military intervention. The International Criminal Court in The Hague called it genocide. When Slobodan Milosevic pursued his policy of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, the world saw it as genocide. When the Hutus slaughtered the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, the United States and European countries failed to intervene, but everyone agreed it was genocide.
..., so much so that to distinguish them as ethnic groups would be inaccurate. Intermarriage between ... has also said, however, that "ethnic cleansing" did not seem to be an accurate description of the...
Editor, the Tribune: I read with interest the student essays on the Darfur crisis in Tuesday's op-ed section. In general I was impressed with the quality of the writing and the thoughtfulness of the students' observations, but I was surprised and offended that one young woman dismissed the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides as less serious than the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Sudan. The slaughter of roughly 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis in Rwanda is not trivial - and, by the way, the world at large ignored the Rwandan genocide until it was too late. No genocide should ever be dismissed as unimportant. The systematic slaughter of an entire religious or ethnic group is always an offense against all humanity, and suggesting anything less is thoughtless at best, callous at worst.
PRESIDENT Barack Obama's decision to participate in the air campaign against Moammar Gadhafi's regime is a vast improvement over previous policy, a victory for human rights idealists within the administration and the application of an important international standard known as "the responsibility to protect. In 2005 - with the gruesome lessons of Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia having finally sunk in - the U.N. General Assembly and the U.S., followed in 2006 by the Security Council, endorsed the principle that the prevention of mass atrocities trumps the claim of national sovereignty. When a government engages in genocide, ethnic cleansing or crimes against humanity - effectively waging war against its own citizens - other nations have the right and duty to intervene.
... of lives being lost to violence--to ethnic cleansing, to the brutality of dictatorial regimess, to actual genocide as in Rwanda when the world stood by and did nothing--and Ameri...
THERE may be a very good reason that the California Legislature has once again failed to pass a balanced budget in time. Lawmakers are too busy engaged in pandering, pointless legislation. Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield is certainly not unique in this respect, but as a Southland Sacramento representative, he gets the spotlight for Assembly Bill 619. This bill, which recently passed through one committee and is headed to hearings in another, seeks to address World War II wrongs by one French rail company that, during Nazi occupation, transported people to concentration camps. The bill would right this wrong by turning the bidding process for the state's future high-speed rail project into a forum for human rights grievances.
... genocide, the Kurdish genocide, the ethnic cleansing in Rwanda, the wholesale massacre of Nor...
Charles R. Snyder is the State Department's senior representative on Sudan and the lead on negotiations to end the 20-year-old civil war there. The strife might have escaped headlines in the United States if it hadn't blazed amid genocide in the Darfur region, where government-backed militias, known as the Janjaweed, have indiscriminately raped, tortured and murdered thousands of civilians. The Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed at a January ceremony Snyder attended with then-secretary of State Colin Powell and the former United Nations ambassador, John Danforth. It was an achievement, but only a beginning. The accord creates steps toward democratic rule and power-sharing. But everything hinges on pacifying Darfur.
... government sat virtually immobile while ethnic cleansing in Rwanda claimed nearly a million lives...
...These include genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, politically motivated...
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