Rwanda - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/rwanda/?source=rss&aim=rwanda en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT So much misery, so little time By Louis Bayard Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/09/05/trachtenberg/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/09/05/trachtenberg/index.html?source=rss Peter Trachtenberg took a tour around the world in his quest to understand why some people are crushed by suffering and others are transformed by it. Movies not to miss: "Munyurangabo" By Andrew O'Hehir Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/05/30/munyurangabo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/05/30/munyurangabo/index.html?source=rss An American indie filmmaker's amazing Rwandan odyssey. Plus: Blame Canada! (For the virus eating your brain.) Beyond the Multiplex By Andrew O'Hehir Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2007/03/08/btm/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2007/03/08/btm/index.html?source=rss "The Host" rises up from American slime to destroy the Korean family! It must be destroyed! Plus: A new film on credit card debt will make you weep. Lost in America By Leigh Flayton Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/25/lost_boys/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/25/lost_boys/index.html?source=rss It was supposed to be a storybook tale of young refugees triumphing against all odds. But an alarming number of Sudan's "Lost Boys" have spiraled into alcohol abuse, crime and even fratricide. What went wrong? Conversations with mass murderers By Suzy Hansen Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/07/20/hatzfeld/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/07/20/hatzfeld/index.html?source=rss In "Machete Season," 10 Hutu men recall how they enjoyed slaughtering their neighbors with machetes and clubs -- and six years after the Rwanda genocide, feel no guilt. "Not on my watch" By Julia Scott Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/05/06/darfur/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/05/06/darfur/index.html?source=rss While the world commemorated the millions of victims of the Nazis on Thursday, Congress squandered an opportunity to address the ongoing genocide in Darfur. Global gorilla By Ian Williams Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/03/09/bolton_un/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/03/09/bolton_un/index.html?source=rss Bush's jaw-dropping nomination of John Bolton as ambassador to the U.N. is a slap in the world's face. Sex and drugs in hell By Suzy Hansen Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/07/08/emergency_sex/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/07/08/emergency_sex/index.html?source=rss The authors of "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" talk about keeping body and soul together in the killing fields of Cambodia, Somalia and Haiti.J "A blink of an eye, and a million killed" By Suzy Hansen Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/07/31/hartley/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/07/31/hartley/index.html?source=rss Author Aidan Hartley talks about his new book, "The Zanzibar Chest," the horrors of Somalia and Rwanda, and when you know war has become genocide. Millions die, Bush is silent By Laura McClure Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/04/congo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/04/congo/index.html?source=rss The Congo's descent into a vortex of murder and destruction is the globe's worst human crisis. But as he travels in Africa this week, the president will ignore it. Bush to Saddam: Get out of Dodge By Jake Tapper Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/18/bush/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/18/bush/index.html?source=rss In a terse speech to the nation and the world, the president stopped just short of a declaration of war. Ordinary people, extraordinary evil By Suzy Hansen Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/08/22/waller/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/08/22/waller/index.html?source=rss What kind of person can attack, mutilate and kill a total stranger or even a neighbor? A scholar talks about the dark potential in all of us. My neighbor, the war criminal By Suzy Hansen Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/12/05/neuffer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/12/05/neuffer/index.html?source=rss An author who followed the lives of survivors in Rwanda and Bosnia talks about how people and nations learn to go on after they've suffered the unthinkable. Elmore Leonard's "Pagan Babies" [read by Steve Buscemi] By Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/leonard_pagan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/leonard_pagan/index.html?source=rss A fast-paced crime novel about a supposed priest who flees war-torn Rwanda to find himself pursued by a cigarette smuggler. "Pagan Babies" by Elmore Leonard By Charles Taylor Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/09/07/leonard/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/09/07/leonard/index.html?source=rss In his latest black-comic thriller, the peerless crime novelist takes his wisecracking swindlers from post-massacre Rwanda to downtown Detroit. Flesh and blood and DNA By Arthur Allen Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/05/12/roots/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/05/12/roots/index.html?source=rss A geneticist sparks outrage with a project to help African-Americans trace their family roots. Congo needs help, not Western posturing By David Rieff Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/08/congo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/08/congo/index.html?source=rss A feud between Richard Holbrooke and Madeleine Albright shadows what will likely be useless U.N. aid to war-torn Central Africa. James Nachtwey's "Inferno" By Douglas Cruickshank Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/04/10/inferno/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/04/10/inferno/index.html?source=rss Pictures from an exhibition -- in hell. Is there a connection between AIDS and circumcision? By Hank Hyena Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/world/2000/02/28/nakedaids/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/world/2000/02/28/nakedaids/index.html?source=rss Researchers claim decade-old evidence has been ignored. A conversation with Elie Wiesel By Jill Priluck Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/01/05/wiesel/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/01/05/wiesel/index.html?source=rss The author of "And the Sea Is Never Full" discusses his work, the Middle East, Rwanda and his friend Primo Levi. Newsreal: The graveyards of hope By Jonathan Broder Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1997/12/11/news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1997/12/11/news/index.html?source=rss Why has it taken us so long to believe that the new "great hope" of Africa may have been responsible for terrible massacres? Media Circus - Russian tanks invade Tokyo! See page C-32 By Martha Ann Overland Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/07/01/media/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/07/01/media/index.html?source=rss American media are running less and less foreign news.