British prosecutors charged a British man of Rwandan origin Tuesday with crimes linked to the Rwanda genocide, in a first for U.K. courts. Vincent Brown, 65, who British police say was known previously as Vincent Bajinya, originally of Kigali, Rwanda, stands accused of aiding in genocide and crimes against humanity, amid the paroxysm of violence that tore the country apart in 1994, drawing global horror. Source link
(RNS) — Threats of genocide and collective violence are not memories of a bygone age. In Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar and elsewhere, civilians are being killed, displaced, starved and deprived of the necessities of life. Although these conflicts have different histories, they confront us with the same urgent moral question: Can the wrongdoing of some ever justify violence against an entire people? India presents a related danger. The ideology of Hindu nationalism associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) increasingly defines national belonging in ways that marginalize Muslims and Christians and creates conditions in which discrimination and violence against religious minorities may be normalized. One of its most dangerous strategies is to hold Muslims living today responsible for atrocities committed centuries ago by some Muslim rulers. History is thereby turned into a ledger of inherited guilt: People are judged not for anything they have done, but for sharing a religious identity with those who acted in the past. The recent protests in New York during the visit of RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat brought renewed attention to …
He was serving a life sentence for his role in the Bosnian War, when he led forces that pounded Sarajevo and carried out the Srebrenica massacre. Source link
A RECORD OF PAIN Nasir Jafer Ali, 26, survived an RSF drone attack on Omdurman, outside of Khartoum, which he described as “a scene of carnage.” Some estimates suggest the death toll is upwards of 400,000 since the conflict began in 2023. But these testimonies reveal a larger machinery at work. The RSF and the SAF, once aligned in their appetite to crush civilian dissent, now wage war on each other with modern and barbaric technology—and the cost falls on those caught between them: children, women, the weakest and most vulnerable. Gold and weapons flow across borders; neighboring states position themselves for profit and control. Thousands flee burned cities and villages. And the world, watching or not watching, remains silent to the crimes. The Unraveling There isn’t an easy answer as to why Sudan has descended once again into civil war. But to understand this moment, it’s useful to look at Sudan’s bloody past. The country’s first civil war began on the eve of independence and lasted from 1955 until 1972, when the southerners, who …
