33 When I was still young, my parents used to tell us how our family had been deported by the government from Ruhengeri to Nyamata in 1959, when massacres based on ethnic conflicts happened for the first time in Rwanda. My father also told us that the whole region of Bugesera had been a forest and that there were many animals there. Most of my relatives who had been forced into the forest by th...

rwanda is a small, poor country in Central africa surrounded by the democratic republic of Congo, uganda, tanzania, and Burundi. with an estimated population of about 11 million, the country has the highest population density in the african continent (415 persons per square kilometer). in addition, at the beginning of the twenty-first century it had one of the world’s highest population growth ...

The Algerian civil war that began in 1992 has gained notoriety for several reasons. It originated in a democratic process that came to an abrupt halt and had massacres of civilians that were shocking in their scale and atrocity. The government received significant amounts of external support despite accusations of widespread abuses relating to its prosecution of the conflict, and many recognize...

having a look at the history of iran, one can realize that, the foundation of governorship in this country was based on two factors, religious belief and tradition, as the safavids came to power according to the former category and ruled for more than two centuries. the fall of the safavid dynasty not only ended their ruling, but decreased their holiness drastically. therefore, from then on the...

The demand for a separate country for the Indian muslims resulted in the creation of Pakistan in 1947 by dividing British India. The migration of millions of people across the newly created borders of India and Pakistan resulted in the uprooting of innumerable communities and massive intercommunal massacres. This newly created country with a highly traumatised population was easily taken over b...

In 1995, the American College of Physicians (ACP) issued its first statement that raised concern about the epidemic of firearm violence in the United States and advocated for policies to reduce the rate of firearm injuries and deaths (1). Nineteen years later, although rates of firearmrelated death, injury, and disability have decreased, firearmrelated mortality rates in the United States remai...

Atlas for a Destroyed World:Frank Day's Painting as Work of Nonvital Revitalization Mark Minch-de Leon (bio) Once in while I take up color and paint little bit, because, if do not this, all things will be forgotten. It's good enough right to sing talk explain on these broadcasts here or especially tape recording records, but it's also nice have someone who's able print this illustrate by upon c...