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Dozens of tents have appeared in Dublin near the International Protection Office - and the encampment has been labelled a ‘tent city’ buy the Irish Examiner. Several of their tents have been daubed with messages that read 'we are not subhuman' and 'homes for all'. The pictures emerged as UK Government ministers today rejected Dublin's demands to take back asylum seekers crossing from Northern Ireland. Rishi Sunak has said the movement of migrants across the border shows that Downing Street’s Rwanda plan ‘is working’ - and he has said he is "not interested" in any sort of returns deal. He...

KIGALI, Rwanda (AFNS) -- Two U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft operating at the request of the French government and African Union authorities continued airlifting a Rwandan mechanized battalion Jan. 19. The joint operation with personnel from the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force is in support of an African Union effort to confront destabilizing forces and violence within Central African Republic. "The African Union has decided to stand up a mission in the Central African Republic to decrease the violence that has been occurring over the last several months," Lt. Col. Allen Pepper, senior officer in Central African...

Asylum seekers 'led genocide death squads' By Amy Iggulden Last Updated: 1:27am GMT 30/12/2006 Four Rwandan men living in Britain, including one given citizenship, appeared in court yesterday accused of organising the mass slaughter of Tutsis in the 1994 genocide. The four men are accused of organising the mass slaughter of thousands of Tutsis Vincent Bajinya, who changed his name to Brown on becoming a citizen last year, Charles Munyaneza, Celestin Ugirashebuja and Emmanuel Nteziryayo face extradition. They were arrested after a deal under which Rwanda becomes a temporary extradition partner with Britain. Rwanda has waived the death penalty to...

UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations will ask France to take legal action against a former U.N. employee accused in the killings of 33 Rwandans in the 1994 genocide, after an internal review found the world body bungled his case and failed to protect its Rwandan staff. Callixte Mbarushimana, who has lived under refugee protection in Paris since 2003, vehemently denies the charges and says he would welcome his day in court. Rwanda has a warrant for his arrest on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. For the last year, U.N. officials have quietly pressed Rwandan authorities and the...

An Open Letter to the Democratic Party By Frances Rice We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert: Whereas in the early 1600’s 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development, Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged, Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past...

How about that Richard Clarke, eh? Apologizing to America for the government’s failure to prevent 9/11: thanks for that, big guy. But, if you want an example of a President doing nothing to prevent not thousands but the best part of a million deaths, how about the Rwandan genocide? Whether or not the Bush Administration could ever have put together a few random clues – an uptick in Arab men taking flight-school training, etc – in time to prevent what happened on September 11th, it’s a proven fact that Bill Clinton knew about Rwanda and did nothing. Rich Lowry, the...

Last Update: Saturday, March 27, 2004. 11:49am (AEDT) UN secretary-general Kofi Annan (File photo) (Reuters) UN chief rues Rwanda genocide response The United Nations' secretary-general, Kofi Annan, has admitted he and the international community could and should have done more to stop the 1994 Rwandan genocide.Mr Annan was speaking at a memorial conference, attended by survivors, to mark the 10th anniversary of the massacre. A decade after Rwanda's genocide, the UN has admitted that it was to blame for failing to stop the slaughter.The method of killing, by machetes and clubs, was horrific. It was murder on a nightmarish...

Del Ponte set to lose Rwanda mandate swissinfo July 29, 2003 3:09 PM Switzerland’s Carla del Ponte looks set to lose her position as chief prosecutor for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, says she should be relieved of her Rwanda mandate, but should continue to head up the war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia. Del Ponte nabbed Milosevic, but her scorecard on Rwanda is less impressive (Keystone Archive) On Tuesday, Annan made his formal recommendation to the 15-member UN Security Council, which has the final say in the matter. Since becoming chief...

Okay, Here is the Role of Belgium and the French in the recent Rawanda Genocide: From: https://mail.lsit.ucsb.edu/pipermail/gordon-newspost/2001-June/001352.html Laying the blame: the scandal of Rwanda and the west RW Johnson unravels the web of culpability behind the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda in this exclusive online essay from the London Review of Books Thursday June 14, 2001 A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide by Linda Melvern. Zed, 272 pp., £16.95, 5 September 2000, 1 85649 831 x Jean de Dieu, 11, was curled up, a ball of flesh and blood, the look in his yes...

IN THE chocolate waters of the Congo river, a mutilated corpse rolls by. The rebels' “minister for children” shivers. How is he going to explain this to the horrified UN peace envoys from the capital, Kinshasa, who are at that moment stepping on to the quay to meet him? Not by telling the truth, obviously, which was that his rebel group had slaughtered 150 people in the town of Kisangani on May 14th-15th, then pitched their disembowelled bodies into the river with stones crammed into their bellies. Instead, he smiles, accepts the envoys' offerings of food aid, and talks chummily...

The irony of being human: deep down we're still animalsJoshua GreeneSyndicated ColumnistWhat would it be like to strap on explosives and pull the ripcord? Explosives are different than parachutes. Sky jumpers say that a minute of free fall, that bit of pure acceleration, that sheer sensory overload, is a whole lot longer than a minute.  Think about how fast you'd be moving and how slow it would feel if you donned a dozen sticks of TNT, walked into a night club and exploded. To be honest with you, I don't like this fad. There are  too many people doing it...