Debora Kayembe, Rector of the University of Edinburgh, has been accused of spreading false information on the Rwandan genocide. Kayembe said in a tweet that the genocide in Rwanda was “orchestrated by Kagame.” Kagame is the current President of Rwanda and has been since 2000. Prior to that Kagame was the commander of the Rwandan […]
The Olympics’ slightly chillier Winter edition will be underway as you are reading this, and yet you would be forgiven for having forgotten to tune in. The usual round of offensively twee promotional media has been notably absent from our screens this time around and – whilst there is generally less interest in the Winter […]
*Content warning: descriptions of racially/ethnically motivated violence and genocide* On the first of February, General Min Aung Hlaing and the Tatmadaw (the Myanmar army) successfully deposed Aung San Suu Kyi, the democratically elected leader of Myanmar, and a member of the National League for Democracy Party. The military ushered in a yearlong ‘state of emergency’ […]
In the years just after World War One, a young university student in what was then Lwow, Poland (Lviv/Ukraine) read about the deportation of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, an atrocity which had cost up to one and a half million lives. In 1921, a number of alleged perpetrators of the crimes were released from […]