Community Quote by Lakhdar Brahimi

The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure,…

— James Orbinski

The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war in Africa.…

— Noam Chomsky

The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.

— Paul Kagame

“(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:) Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then…

— Jared Diamond

“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building...In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary…

— Philip Gourevitch

Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it…

— Immaculee Ilibagiza

Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of…

— Terry Brooks

It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And that's quite…

— Noam Chomsky

“...The typhoon of madness that swept through the country [of Rwanda] between April 7 and the third week of May accounted for 80 percent…

— John Rucyahana

“It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure…

— Stephen Kinzer

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it…

— Tony Greig