Human Security

This April, Rwandans mark 20 years since the genocide in 1994. In just three months, approximately 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutus, were butchered in horrific massacres in a genocide while the world watched.

IN THIS ISSUE

News on Countries of Origin

News on Countries of Asylum

Deportation News

Courses

Grants and awards

Calls for papers

Vacancies

Letters to the editor

Death of Col. Karegeya: Unending hunt for Rwandan refugees

INTRODUCTION

On 10 November 2013, the governments of Kenya and Somalia, and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), signed a tripartite agreement to repatriate Somali refugees from Kenya to ‘safe areas’ in southern Somalia. The exercise was expected to be voluntary.

Recently, I travelled to the Tindouf refugee camps to take a part in the FiSahara International Film Festival. As a Moroccan, the decision to go was difficult, and I weighed several potential repercussions.

The year 2013 marked of the start of political upheavals and speculations in the Republic of South Sudan.

President Paul Kagame has come to love United Nations peacekeeping operations. This is ironic since he hates the United Nations, and does not actually believe in peacekeeping.

There is one thing that the so-called peace conference on Syria was guaranteed to achieve and that is that when the last speech is made and the delegates leave the hall, the grotesque bloodletting and devastation will continue for the people of Syria. Why?

30 December 2013

Geneva, Kampala, New York, Tuesday 24 December 2013