Phil Clark describes post-genocide Rwanda, in the lead up to the resurrected gacaca courts system in this, the first of two parts.
Features
Africa
Uganda – Children On The Frontline
by Lee Ridley •
Paul was just six-years old when the rebels came for him in February 2002.
Africa
Ghana – The Village Bike Project
by Eric Matthies •
In May of 2005 the author embarked to Ghana on a project to document, with video and photography, the work of The Village Bike Project…
Central Asia
Kashmir – Fragile Mountains
by Vince Gainey •
Vince Gainey recently returned from a two-week mission to Pakistan-administered Kashmir to conduct an assessment for a humanitarian aid agency on provision of health services to earthquake survivors.
The Subcontinent
Nepal – Mountains And Maoists
by Flip Flop •
Trekking in the Himalayas goes wrong as the group get mugged by Maoist rebels.
Features, Middle East
Iraq – Lalish And The Yezidi Kurds
by Karlos Zurutuza •
Lalish: the Kurds´ hidden treasure in northern Iraq Safe in the Kurdish haven of northern Iraq, but still only 50 km north of war-torn Mosul, lies Lalish, the Yezidi Kurds´ holiest shrine. Visiting this particular site, tantamount to the Catholics´ Vatican or Muslims’ Mecca, had become an obsession since I first came across Yezidi Kurds…