The Fallacies of Stephen Kinzer: Human Rights is A Tyranny – Case of Rwanda

On December 31, 2010 The Guardian published an article by Mr Stephen Kinzer, a US journalist and author. In the article,  titled “End human rights imperialism now” ( see here):  Steven Kinzer attacks human rights groups, singling out the reputable Human Rights Watch for having “lost their way by imposing western, ‘universal’ standards on developing countries.”   Unfortunately …

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Rwanda: When Statistics Lie

Rwanda: When Statistics Lie Being an ignorant in economics matters, I approached my friend Dr. Felicien Kanyamibwa who is a statistician and econometrician and a Rwandan expert to explain the discrepancies in the Rwandan GDP and economic growth numbers. I was trying to understand the discussions between two Rwandans: One, Dr. Ngarambe Joseph, who claimed…

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