How Louise Arbour helped shield Paul Kagame from justice
Paul Kagame with Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) troops in the 1990s. Photo courtesy Great Lakes Eye. If power is measured by the capacity to influence outcomes, then Louise Arbour, Canada...
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No end in sight to Rwanda’s war in Congo, despite peace deal
M23 rebel stands outside of Bunagana, North Kivu Province, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo by Nicolas Pinault. Perhaps no country in history has been more ravaged than...
Spain revives war crimes case against Rwandan military figure
Rwanda’s former army chief of staff, Kayumba Nyamwasa, middle, stands behind Paul Kagame during a military event in Kigali. Spain has re-issued arrest warrants against a high-profile Rwand...
US-Israeli bid for regime change in Iran would devour the Middle East
A billboard displaying Iranian Ayatollahs Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei. Photo by Erdalislakphotography. Israel and the United States have intensified their radical destabilization of the M...
Shell exits Nigeria, leaving behind trail of environmental degradation
Monday Gboro stands in front of an oil spill in the Kegbara-Dere community, Rivers State, Nigeria. Photo by Luka Tomac/Friends of the Earth International/Wikimedia Commons. I’ll never forget see...
Paul Kagame’s foray in eastern Congo leaves thousands dead and sparks fears of a broader war
Members of the M23 rebel group ride into Goma. Photo by Sylvain Liechti/UN. On the night of October 6, 1996, fighters loyal to Paul Kagame entered Lemera Hospital in eastern…
Apple is accused of profiting from war crimes in Congo
By every subjective measure, Apple is one of the most successful public companies in history. Its brand perception is synonymous with innovation and its corporate ethos is to make the…
The dangerous acceleration of remote-controlled warfare
Elbit System Hermes 900 drone on display at the Singapore Air Show. Photo by Choo Yut Shing/Flickr. The tech industry’s emerging role as a defense contractor is transforming the global…
The state of our moral disengagement
Palestinians stand amid the ruins of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Photo by Mohammed Hajjar/AP. A US-made precision-guided bomb manufactured by Boeing shreds a little girl and renders her body…
Canadian forestation policies add fuel to the fires
The spraying of the herbicide glyphosate by Canada’s forestry industry is designed to promote conifers like pine and spruce, leaving species like aspen and birch vulnerable. Photo by Joel Theriault.…
Canada’s whitewashing of Africa’s most ruthless regime
Rwandan President Paul Kagame poses for a picture with Robert Marawa and Masai Ujiri, right, at the NBA Africa Summit in Toronto, February 13, 2016. Photo from Flickr. The use…
Students lift veil on university financing and demand end to genocide complicity
Scenes from the People’s Circle for Palestine at King’s College Circle on the University of Toronto Campus, May 2, 2024. Photo by Can Pac Swire/Flickr. The politics of power and…
Will a landmark war crimes trial usher in an era of corporate accountability?
A man examining a pipeline in Paloch, South Sudan, built on land once used for agriculture. Photo by Sven Torfinn. A groundbreaking criminal case against a multinational company accused of…
Impediments to establishing truth about the Rwandan genocide
Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, Kigali, Rwanda. Photo from Flickr. Facing history means facing ourselves. No history is hermetically sealed. One of the most serious historical tasks is to examine our…
Igniting conflict in the heart of Africa
US Marines wait to be extracted by helicopter during a military exercise in Cap Draa, Morocco, April 16, 2012. Photo courtesy Defense Imagery/Wikimedia Commons. Decades of poverty, ethnic strife and…
The dream of a Palestinian narrative
Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza. Photo from Instagram. One of the great scholars of the 20th century, Edward Said, wrote that Palestinians have been denied permission to narrate their own history.…
Rwanda’s opposition leader faces renewed threats but vows to continue the struggle
Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. She spent eight years in prison before her release in 2018 following a pardon by President Paul Kagame. Photo by Shant Fabricatorian/AP. The Rwandan…
The intensity of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza is barbaric and shocking, but its methods are not new
Palestinians transport the injured to the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip on October 9, 2023. Photo courtesy Palestinian News & Information Agency-WAFA/Wikimedia Commons. For nearly 75…
NaziGate: Trudeau and Freeland should face consequences
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland recognize Yaroslav Hunka, who was in attendance, in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Friday,…
Rwanda is the ‘Wild West’ and should be removed from the mineral supply chain
Diggers at an entrance to a cassiterite mine in South Kivu, eastern Congo, 2015. Photo by Phil Hatcher-Moore. Mark Twain, who wrote about thieves and conmen in America’s “Wild West,”…