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Becky Tinsley in The New Statesman: “In the four years I have been campaigning against the genocide in Darfur, I have realised that the rules of the schoolyard apply to international relations. Unless nations come together to call the bullies’ bluff, the thugs will continue to divide and rule, to terrorize, and to make the [...]

Photo: Orbinski in Goma, DRC (c) 2007 Steve Simon
“The [Rwandan] genocide was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible was the absence, the erasure of seeing the other, of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that’s removed, then politics can become genocidal.”
“We are responsible [...]