The Syrian crisis began in early 2011 when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began a brutal crackdown on growing peaceful protests throughout the country. With the use of tanks‚ attack helicopters‚ and artillery against protesters and the torture and execution of children‚ protests spread and opposition groups took up arms. The attacks and counter-attacks escalated into a full-fledged civil war between the Assad regime with allied militias and an array of opposition groups. The death toll has now
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to have particularly devastating consequences. Indeed‚ it is widely claimed that the Armenians were victims of a deliberate genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman authorities – an accusation that continues to be strongly denied by Turkey. The Armenian genocide was a mass killing of the Armenian people who lived in the then Ottoman empire by the Ottoman citizens. This genocide happened in 1915 during
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FINANCIAL REPRESSION AND FINANCIAL REFORM IN UGANDA Martin Brownbridge Summary The banking system in Uganda is among the weakest in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its liabilities comprise less than 10 per cent of GDP‚ it is highly oligopolistic and inefficient in performing many basic banking functions‚ and the largest bank and several smaller banks are insolvent. The financial policies of the pre-reform period aimed to control banking markets‚ ostensibly for developmental and other non commercial
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Genocide is the deliberate and systematic killing of a racial‚ cultural or religious group. The Rwandan Genocide‚ which resulted in the mass murdering of over 800 000 Tutsi people‚ was one of the shortest but largest civil wars in earths history. Its cause‚ which is still debated about by historians today‚ has been a controversial topic since its occurrence. While it was sparked directly by the death of the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana (a Hutu) when his plane was shot down‚ many believe
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Shortly into the film “Genocide: The Horror Continues” (“Genocide: The Horror Continues”) the tragedy in the late 20th century in Uganda is described. Army General and later self-appointed President for Life Idi Amin took power and began his attacks against “various ethnic groups” for being “enemies of the state” (“Genocide: The Horror Continues”). With no other reasons or means to do so‚ he victimized and sent the military to attack his guiltless civilians. He did this with massacres and deportation
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TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN BANK OF AFRICA (UGANDA): AN EVALUATION OF CUSTOMERS’ PERCEPTION Musa Moya Senior Lecturer/ Head of Department Business Computing musamoya@yahoo.com Makerere University Business School Rehema Nanvuma rehmashan@yahoo.com Buganda Land Board Akodo Robinah arobinah@yahoo.com Makerere University Business School Abstract This study sets out to ascertain customers’ perception on the effect of IT innovations or electronic delivery channels in Bank
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Khaira 2/6/12 6th hour Genocide in Today’s Humanity The United States has always‚ and probably will continue to‚ meddle with foreign affairs that do not concern them. We‚ as a nation‚ have suffered mentally‚ physically‚ and economically for reasons that do not concern us. People have taken notice of this and are starting to get frustrated with the lack of personal interests before foreign tribulations. Specifically‚ this country has tried to police worldwide genocide. For this motive‚ the country
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worldwide. The most common race‚ the western lowland gorilla is not present in Uganda but an estimated 40000 live in the rainforests of west and central Africa. The endangered eastern lowland gorilla is restricted to patches of forests in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The most threatened specie is the mountain gorilla. Their total number is estimated to be only 700. Half of these mountain gorillas lie in Uganda. The mountain gorillas have become Uganda’s most major attraction and a truly Ugandan
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both wanted control after independence. The cause of the genocide was not just the matter of the Tutsi attempting to wipe out the Hutu‚ it was also because of previous conflict between the 2‚ as the Tutsi trying to control the government.
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Genocide in the Mayan Highlands “They took them one by one to a ravine that was about twenty meters from where we were. We heard shots‚ screams and crying.”- Jesús Tecú Osorio. This was a testimony given by one on the survivors of the Guatemalan genocide of the Mayan highlands. The Guatemalan government used its counter insurgency force‚ to put pressure upon the Mayans who claimed they were starting a communist group. The Mayans natural allies the guerrillas added to the uprising human rights violations
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