Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

302 Reports of major seismic events in the Solomon Islands include Richard A. Lovett, “Deadly tsunami sweeps Solomon Islands,” National Geographic News, April 2, 2007; James Grubel, “Tsunami kills at least five in Solomons after big Pacific quake,” Reuters, February 6, 2013; Lincoln Feast, “Strong quake hits near Solomon Islands; tsunami warning cancelled,” Reuters, April 12, 2014; and Sandra Maler and Peter Cooney, “Magnitude 6.6 quake hits Solomon Islands in the Pacific: USGS,” Reuters, August 12, 2015.

303 The relocation of Choiseul is reported in Megan Rowling, “Solomons town first in Pacific to relocate due to climate change,” Reuters, August 15, 2014; and Adam Morton, “The vanishing island,” Age, September 19, 2015.

303 World Bank–funded efforts to upgrade infrastructure in order to withstand disasters better are announced in the press release “World Bank, Govt. of Solomon Islands launch two new projects towards improved power supply, disaster & climate resilience,” World Bank, April 1, 2014.

303 Tectonic phenomena endangering the Solomon Islands are discussed in Gerald Traufetter, “Climate change or tectonic shifts? The mystery of the sinking South Pacific islands,” Der Spiegel, June 15, 2012.

Children of Bad Memories

305 Unsourced quotations in my essay about Rwanda come from personal interviews conducted in Rwanda in 2004.

Books consulted on the Rwandan genocide include Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges, “Leave None to Tell the Story”: Genocide in Rwanda (1999); Jean Hatzfeld, Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak (2005); Elizabeth Neuffer, The Key to My Neighbour’s House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda (2002); Binaifer Nowrojee, Shattered Lives: Sexual Violence during the Rwandan Genocide and Its Aftermath (1996); Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (1999); and Jonathan Torgovnik, Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape (2009). For journalistic coverage, see Donatella Lorch, “Rape used as a weapon in Rwanda: Future grim for genocide orphans,” Houston Chronicle, May 15, 1995; Elizabeth Royte, “The outcasts,” New York Times Magazine, January 19, 1997; Lindsey Hilsum, “Rwanda’s time of rape returns to haunt thousands,” Guardian, February 26, 1995; Lindsey Hilsum, “Don’t abandon Rwandan women again,” New York Times, April 11, 2004; and Emily Wax, “Rwandans are struggling to love children of hate,” Washington Post, March 28, 2004.

306 The role of Rwandan media in inciting genocide is discussed in Dina Temple-Raston’s remarkable book Justice on the Grass (2005). See also Russell Smith, “The impact of hate media in Rwanda,” BBC News, December 3, 2003. Also, in his doctoral dissertation, “Propaganda and conflict: Theory and evidence from the Rwandan genocide” (Stockholm University, 2009), political economist David Yanagizawa found a direct correlation between hate radio and violence by analyzing locations of transmission towers and topographical impediments to transmission, and the locations and numbers of subsequent genocide prosecutions.

306 The Rwandan proverb “A woman who is not yet battered is not a real woman” is reported in Nowrojee, op. cit., page 20.

306 General information sources on rape as a tool of war include Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will (1975); Maria de Bruyn, Violence, Pregnancy and Abortion: Issues of Women’s Rights and Public Health (2003); and the Global Justice Center report The Right to an Abortion for Girls and Women Raped in Armed Conflict (2011).

307 The expression “die of sadness” and the account that follows of atrocities committed against one rape survivor are documented in Nowrojee, op. cit.

307 Statistics on wartime rapes in Rwanda are supported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs news report “Our bodies, their battle ground: Gender-based violence in conflict zones,” IRIN News, September 1, 2004. Estimates of the numbers of wartime rapes and births come from the introduction by Marie Consolée Mukagendo, “The struggles of Rwandan women raising children born of rape,” in Torgovnik, op. cit.

307 The expression “children of bad memories” (enfants de mauvais souvenir) comes from Nowrojee, op. cit., but is used widely.

307 The phrase “living legacy of a time of death” comes from Wax, op. cit.