Genocide in sentence

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And then in 1994, I was sent to Rwanda to be the director of the U.N.'s genocide investigation.

It turns out that tears just aren't much help when you're trying to investigate a genocide.

What I can tell you is this: that the Rwandan genocide was one of the world's greatest failures of simple compassion.

And not just to tears, but to actually stop the genocide.

But notice the violence that they fear is not the violence of genocide or the wars, it's everyday violence.

Former UN Secretary Kofi Annan has spoken candidly about his personal failure leading to the Rwandan genocide.

At a 10-year memorial for the genocide, he reflected, "I believed at the time I was doing my best, but I realized after the genocide that there was more I could and should have done to sound the alarm and rally support."

Also, I think one of the biggest things we are all looking at, and we talked about today, is genocide.

It was right on the heels of the Rwandan genocide, and aid money to the region was drying up.

For the next year, I'd be living in Butaro in this old guesthouse, which was a jail after the genocide.

And on this job site, 15 years after the Rwandan genocide, Bruce insisted that we bring on labor from all backgrounds, and that half of them be women.

But we treat time as though it is timeless, as though it has always been this way, as though it doesn't have a political history bound up with the plunder of indigenous lands, the genocide of indigenous people and the stealing of Africans from their homeland.

I don't remember the words that she chose to describe genocide to her 10-year-old daughter, but I remember the feeling.

The Holocaust which has the dubious distinction of being the best-documented genocide in the world?

And another thing that they talked about was this fear that they had of something that they labeled as "white genocide," that diversity would be a force that would wipe them out.

Gacaca is Rwanda's traditional judicial system that was used after the genocide.

In 1994, when the genocide ended, Rwanda's national court system was in shambles: no judges, no lawyers to try hundreds of thousands of genocide cases.

So by the time Gacaca concluded its trial of genocide cases in 2012, 12,000 community-based courts had tried approximately 1.2 million cases.

Thankfully, however, it was my teacher's teachers, Chea Samy, Soth Sam On and Chheng Phon, who would lead the revival of the art form from the ashes of war and genocide: one student, one gesture, one dance at a time.

Did you know, that before the genocide in Rwanda, the word for rape and the word for marriage was the same one?

And what we faced was the wholesale violation, not just of human rights, but all the way to ethnic cleansing and genocide, and that has been adjudicated in the highest war crimes court in the world.

Genocide, slavery and patriarchy started in the Americas with Christopher Columbus.

I spent the better part of a decade looking at American responses to mass atrocity and genocide.

So 14 years ago, almost, in the middle of the Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 people would be systematically exterminated by the Rwandan government and some extremist militia.

On April 21, in the New York Times, the paper reported that somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000 people had already been killed in the genocide.

Rwanda itself was not seen as newsworthy, and amazingly, genocide itself was not seen as newsworthy.

It's two weeks into the genocide at that time, but of course, at that time you don't know how long it's going to last.

There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur.

They've lowered the transaction costs of stopping genocide.

So what you now have when a Congress is in session is members of Congress calling up these 19-year-olds or 24-year-olds and saying, I'm just told I have a D minus on genocide; what do I do to get a C? I just want to get a C. Help me.

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