(10 quotes found)
“The dead of Rwanda accumulated at nearly three times the rate of Jewish dead during the Holocaust. It was the most efficient mass killings since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
Philip Gourevitch
“We are behind Rwanda and Sierra Leone and all of Latin America. Most Americans presume that we are right up there … and we're not.”
Carol Moseley Braun
“He will be speaking on his experience during the Rwanda massacres and his experience coming back to Rwanda after fleeing to the Unites States.”
Zachary Jeremiah
“The Speaker of the House of Rwanda is usually the position that moves into the presidency.”
“When we went to Rwanda, the people were thinking, because we were Americans and we were white, we wanted to live in a better area.”
Yvonne Parr
“Hotel Rwanda”
Don Cheadle
“Vast numbers of people are still in torment in Rwanda, ... But few remain as vulnerable as the children living in parentless households. They are the most marginalized of the poor in an area of almost unimaginable suffering and want.”
Carol Bellamy
“Nuremberg begat the Yugoslavia tribunal which begat the Rwanda tribunal which begat the special court for Sierra Leone and East Timor and now the permanent International Criminal Court.”
Michael Scharf
“It was so peaceful in Rwanda. I felt safe there.”
Misty DeMichael
“Whatever the exact numbers, the scale and persistence of the problem of child-headed households in Rwanda is daunting, ... The plight of these children is not only heartbreaking and unacceptable -- it raises deeply troubling questions about the long-term prospects for the country's recovery.”
