‘As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems.

‘Please help me,’ said Fatima. ‘Just help me.’

Fatima is seven years old. While playing outside in Damascus, the splinter of a grenade hit her in the spinal cord. It paralyzed her from the waist down.

The recent high profile visit of British Foreign Secretary William Hague and actress Angelina Jolie to Gisozi genocide memorial briefly drew the attention of the international media back to Rwanda and to the 19th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide on 7 April.

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Issue 36, April 2013

ISSN 2049-2650

EDITORIAL TEAM: Themba Lewis, Yara Romariz Maasri, Lily Parrott, Britta Redwood, Katherine Rehberg, Fiona McKinnon, Stuart Thomas, Jennie Corbett and Katie Vasey

With 8 million people killed, thousands of women raped, strategic minerals looted, land occupied by an implanted population from Rwanda and hundreds of people forced out of their land into internally displaced people’s camps or fleeing to neighbouring countries in the last 15 years - as a result

INTRODUCTION

In this issue:

STOP PRESS: Israel ‘secretly’ deports 1,000 Sudanese to Sudan, UNHCR rejects claim removal was ‘voluntary’

News on Countries of Origin and Asylum
Deportation News
Announcements
Conferences & workshops
Vacancies

The conflict of Western Sahara is one of Africa’s longest lasting territorial disputes. It has been going on for more than three decades.

Some people find it rude to be asked about their age, or how much they earn, while others find it offending to be asked about their religion.

The history of the Western Sahara conflict, having lasted over thirty-five years, is well known.