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People often assume — and I understand why — that events of the magnitude of genocide shatter all social norms, including gender and kinship, reducing human relations to pure, undifferentiated violence. But this is not entirely what happened in Rwanda. What happened was both simpler and more disturbing: the genocide, though extreme, did not entirely…
The rapid emergence of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), is poised to dramatically alter the nature of warfare across Africa. Their use raises critical legal, accountability, psychological and ethical concerns. Existing rules of war—including International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law and the law governing interstate conflict, jus ad bellum —are primarily regulated by…
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has defiantly declared that the sanctions imposed on Rwandan defence and security forces would not minimise its strength and integrity, emphasising: “They are among the finest that can be found anywhere”. On March 2, the US department of the treasury’s office of foreign assets control announced it had imposed sanctions on…
In a house once filled with 15 souls, only three of us remain: my mother, my five-month-old uncle and me. I set that sentence down as plainly as I can, because plainness is what it deserves. No flourish. No rhetorical preparation. One moment, there were 15 people who had names and histories and habits and…