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Rory Marples in Gome in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

‘On the streets I once walked dead bodies lay prostrate and forgotten’

I’m heartbroken by the violence that erupted in the vibrant city where I treated patients only last year.

  • Dr Rory Marples

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A weekly market in Nyamata. The south-eastern town is the site of a memorial to the 1994 genocide.

Three decades after the genocide, Rwanda is a nation transformed

Years after reporting on a broken country, a journalist revisits Rwanda to see its famous gorillas – and discovers a land in the midst of renewal.

  • Jennifer Byrne
Children in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) 1994, at the time of the Rwandan genocide.

Suffer the little children. It is ever the way, from Rwanda to Gaza

They are the innocents, and it is never their fight. But it is the children of conflict who always suffer the most.

  • Tony Wright
Harvard University president Claudine Gay.

Harvard president resigns amid backlash from antisemitism testimony

Claudine Gay came under fire for her lawyerly answers to a question about whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate Harvard’s code of conduct.

Zairean civil guardsmen patrolling the streets of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A man stepped out on the road with an AK-47. I traded my life back with cigarettes – and a desperate joke

Everyone in Rwanda knew travelling after dark was inviting trouble. I’d taken a risk for a trivial reason, and now a large man with an assault rifle was at the window of the car, making demands.

  • Tony Wright
Sonja Cowan’s life story, particularly her escape from Nazi Germany in 1939, lies at the heart of Benjamin Preiss’ family collective identity.

Two sisters were saved from the Nazis and one was lost. Until now

My grandmother Sonja’s life story, particularly her escape from Nazi Germany, lies at the heart of my family’s collective identity. I had long accepted that the voices of her murdered family were permanently silenced. I was wrong.

  • Benjamin Preiss
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A Muslim man mourns next to the coffin of his relative, a victim of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, in Potocari, Bosnia on Sunday

A generation after the Bosnian genocide, we still haven’t broken the cycle of hate

On this day – July 11 – 28 years ago, Bosnian Serb forces murdered thousands of Bosniak boys and men in Srebrenica. That slaughter should continue to inspire us to fight extremism wherever we find it.

  • Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
Ustasha in Australia

The young woman selling fascist memorabilia to the Croatian diaspora

A Sydney-based online store has been openly selling Ustasha-themed memorabilia and images of World War II Croatian dictator Ante Pavelic.

  • Simone Fox Koob and Ben Schneiders
SURVIVORS (clockwise from top left) Leosia Korn with daughter Anita, Leosia with husband Mundek and daughter Yvonne, Leosia, Oskar Schindler and Mundek in 1972, Leosia, her daughter-in-law Lini and great grandson Aaron. Background, the Schindler factory workers Holocaust survivors.

‘An Oscar for Oskar’: Schindler’s Ark families honour author Tom Keneally

The families of the Holocaust survivors saved by Oskar Schindler paid tribute to the Schindler’s Ark author this week.

  • Helen Pitt
Paul Rusesabagina in 2018.

Real-life hero who inspired Hotel Rwanda released from prison

Rwanda says it will release Paul Rusesabagina, a former hotel manager portrayed as a hero in a film about the 1994 genocide.

  • Katharine Houreld

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