Rwanda 30 Years After Genocide, U.S.-Japan-Philippines Summit, ABBA’s Eurovision Legacy, and More

Rwanda marks thirty years since its genocide against the Tutsis; U.S. President Joe Biden hosts the first trilateral leaders’ summit with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Philippines President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.; music fans celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Swedish pop group ABBA’s Eurovision win; and Ekrem İmamoğlu is elected mayor of Istanbul, in a rebuke to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party.
This episode was originally released by The World Next Week on April 4, 2024.
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[@flyingspacerock8968]

Rwanda's Tutsi killed millions of Hutus too. Keep it 100. Not on either side but that war was CREATED by EUROPEANS.

[@ahorrell]

A suggestion: please be careful with how you describe the genocide. The genocide wasn't committed by a faction of an ethnicity, it was committed by a faction of a political elite that organised around ethnicity. We can do this with WW2 (we say the Nazis committed genocide, not a 'radical faction of Germans'), so we can do it with Rwanda.
This isn't an intellectual matter - this is a very live conflict in the Eastern DRC. It is dangerous to suggest the collective guilt of all Hutu, especially when many Hutu resisted the genocide, or were forced to participate in the genocide, or were killed in the genocide, or were killed in retribution for the genocide.

[@ahorrell]

I see you've taken that text from the article on the CFR website... which has some issues. It would take time to detail them all (I can't be bothered) but I'm happy to do so if you really want me to