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Benjamin Sehene (b. 1959) is a Rwandan-Canadian author whose work primarily focuses on pan-African politics and the events surrounding the Rwandan genocide. Image File history File links Benjaminsehene. ...
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1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ...
Pan-African people are all people with African physical features. ...
The skulls of victims show gashes and signs of violence The Rwandan Genocide was the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus by a group of Hutu extremists known as Interahamwe during a period of 100 days in 1994. ...
Sehene was born in Kigali to a Tutsi family. His family left Rwanda in 1963 for Uganda, and he studied in Paris at the Sorbonne in the early 1980s, before emigrating to Canada in 1984. He currently lives in Paris. Kigali, population 330,000 (1997), is the capital city of Rwanda and its largest city, lying in the centre of the nation. ...
The Tutsi are one of three native peoples of the nations of Rwanda and Burundi in central Africa, the other two being the Twa and the Hutu. ...
1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...
The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The Sorbonne today, from the same point of view The Sorbonne is frequently used in ordinary parlance as synonymous with the faculty of theology of Paris or the University of Paris in its entirety. ...
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In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, Sehene returned to Rwanda, hoping to better understand what had happened. He subsequently wrote Le Piège ethnique (The Ethnic Trap) (1999), a study of ethnic polemics, and Le Feu sous la soutane (Fire under the Cassock) (2005), an historical novel focusing on the true story of a Hutu Catholic priest, Father Stanislas, who offered protection to Tutsi refugees in his church before sexually exploiting the women and participating in massacres. Look up Genocide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Genocide is defined in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group...
Hutu is the name given to one of the three ethnic groups occupying Burundi and Rwanda. ...
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Publications
- Le Piège Ethnique(The Ethnic Trap)] Dagorno, Paris, (1999) ISBN 2910019543
- "Rwanda's collective amnesia", in The UNESCO Courier, (1999).
- Le Feu sous la Soutane (Fire under the Cassock) L'Esprit Frappeur, Paris (2005) ISBN 2844052223
1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
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1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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