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Aspects of war crimes so it is very interesting connections. Our next speaker is Carole Emberton who is an associate professor of history at the university of buffalo. Carole works on the civil war era as does everyone else here. Her first book was beyond redemption race, violence and the american south. She is currently working on a book that will be titled a folk history of freedom, dealing with the federal projects, writers projects and the interviews of former slaves during the depression era. Her paper today is a hungry belly and freedom rations, refugees and reconstruction after the civil war. I am delighted to introduce Carole Emberton. [applause] thank you, everyone, for coming to spend a portion of this glorious spring day inside with us. Since i am it is kind of fortuitous since i am the last speaker before lunch that i will talk a lot about food. Let me get start ....
Science professor arthur vanden houten and Flagler College history Professor John young taught a class on the the rwandan genocide and the response by the u. S. And the United Nations. The professors placed particular emphasis on the slow reaction to the crisis from the International Community and how that then shaped 21st century Foreign Policy for many countries. This is about two hours. So, i mean as a kind of overview just to refresh everyones memory here, we started with an overview of the history of it. Rwanda. Talked about how the genocide was an outgrowth of 19th and 20th century rwandan history. There were tensions between ious as his cities ethnicities, various groups. This was exacerbated b ....
People at a military base in washington. Bosses of hostages are freed in the philippines but some are still held at gunpoint. And the Costa Concordia is raised in 18 hours. There are calls for the chemical attack in syria to be referred to the International Criminal court. The nerve agent sarin was used august 21st. The details support their claim that the government is to blame. While the u. N. Claims unequivocally chemical weapons were used. And rockets compared sarin. 85 of the samples taken from the attack tested positive for the agent. The u. N. Secretary general came to speak to reporters after presenting the Security Council with what he said was evidence of a war crime. As he spoke he was flanked by the head of his weapons inspection team, who wrote the report. The report makes for chilling reading. Th ....
The Costa Concordia is upright again. France and russia have publicly disagreed over who is responsible for last months chemical attack in damascus. Seeking a tough resolution at the u. N. Secure council that carries the threat of force, theres a wrist between the approach of the two countries and russia is unwilling to countenance military action. We discussed in detail the situation especially rewarding syria. We dont have discrepancies with the end goal, which wed like to see for the syrian people. To restore peace on the solvency and integrity of the country, insuring the rights of all the groups, the goal is shared by moscow and paris, though there are differences on how to achieve it. What we were not able to achieve in geneva one we can get done in two. The best case would be for the Assad Government and opposition to meet up and work in the direction of a solution, ....
So, i mean as a kind of overview just to refresh everyones memory here, we started with an overview of the history of it. Rwanda. This tension was precipitated by the withdrawal of the colonial powers in the 1950s and 1960s such that there was tension for the next 20 and 30 years erupting into violence. Becoming pretty severe starting in 1990 with the invasion of uganda of the Rwanda Patriotic front. This violence escalated through the early 1990s. There were preprisal killings i r rwanda. That brings us to our topic of genocide and the u. S. And International Response to the genocide. We will talk tonight about the kind of narrative of the genocide itself. What happened between late 1993 and the middle of 1994. The genocide itself taking place over 100 days between april 6, 1994 and midjuly early to mird july of 1994. We do this through a number of books that our s ....