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Issue 5

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The general meeting of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Science was held in March dedicated to those 20 years which separate us from the Rwandan genocide, mass slaughter of Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority.The Director of the Institute, academician A.M.Vasiliev underlined that after the horrors of the Second World War, when the genocide had been subjected to whole nations, people believed that nothing of the kind will ever take place. However, in our days the genocide was applied in Cambodia, several African countries and in the most brutal forms in Rwanda.A large public lecture was delivered by the Ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda in Russia Dr. Jane d’Arc Mujawamaria. The report «Rwanda: 20 years after the genocide» was presented by a senior research fellow of the Institute S.M.Shlenskaya. The meeting was also addressed by the Ambassador of Kenya in Russia Paul K.Kurgat, the Ambassador of Sudan Omer Mohamed, the First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of “Asia and Africa today” journal O.I. Teterin and some others.

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