Cut Western Aid to Rwanda

Oliver Courtney, from Global Witness, speaks on the need to put pressure on US and British allies Rwanda and Uganda by withholding aid due to their destabilization of Congo.

Global Witness is an international NGO established in 1993 that works to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses worldwide. The organisation has offices in London and Washington, D.C. In 2003 it was co-nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for its work on conflict diamonds.

Bill Clinton and the Rwanda Genocide

Greogry H. Stanton shares the disappointment Hillary Clinton has toward US policies during the Rwandan genocide.

Mr. Stanton is the founder (1999) and president of Genocide Watch, the founder (1981) and director of the Cambodian Genocide Project, and the founder (1999) and Chair of the International Campaign to End Genocide. From 2007 to 2009 he was the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

What Will Bring Peace to the Congo

Jocelyn Kelly discusses why humanitarian aid will not be the ultimate solution to end the conflict in the Congo.

Jocelyn Kelly is the Women in War Research Coordinator for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) where she designs and implements research projects based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to examine the experiences and attitudes of community groups regarding sexual violence. She has been conducting health-related research using both qualitative and quantitative research methods for over seven years both in national and international settings. Ms. Kelly’s international work has focused on understanding the health needs of vulnerable populations in Eastern and Central Africa and has included working with Uganda Human Rights commission to launch the first office in Africa promoting the Right to Health.

Clinton, Rwanda Genocide, Congo Crisis, and 9-11

Dr. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja speaks about the double standard of the Clinton’s administration policies of dealing with Rwanda in the 1990s. He also reminds us that we must remember the past, just as Americans remember the 9-11 incident.

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja was born in 1944 in Kasha, Congo-Kinshasa. He holds a B.A. degree in philosophy (Davidson College, Davidson, NC, 1967); an M.A. in diplomacy and international commerce (University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1968); and a Ph.D. in political science (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975).

A specialist in African politics, development policy and administration, and political theory, he is currently professor of African Studies.

UN Mapping Report Release

Congolese author Dedy Mbepongo Bilamba discusses the timeliness of the UN Mapping Report release.

RPF Movement during the Rwanda Genocide

Allan Stam shares the movement of Paul Kagame’s forces, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, during the Rwandan genocide.

Allan Stam, a University of Michigan Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies has done studies, along with his colleague Christian Davenport, around the Rwandan genocide, the Rwandan civil war, vendetta killings and random violence that took place in Rwanda in 1994 and took the data into a GIS programs to understand military positions of Kagame’s forces and government forces during the Rwandan genocide.

Eyewitness Account of Congo Massacres