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

The World Next Week

Council on Foreign Relations

Politics, News, News:politics

4.6 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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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. Mentioned on the Podcast Eurovision Winners, Eurovision World Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda, PBS Mariel Ferragamo, “Thirty Years After Rwanda’s Genocide: Where the Country Stands Today,” CFR.org “Rwanda: Freedom in the World 2024,” Freedom House “Three Decades After Rwanda’s Genocide, the Past is Ever-Present,” The Economist When Abba Came to Britain, BBC For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/rwanda-30-years-after-genocide-us-japan-philippines-summit-abbas-eurovision-legacy-and

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0:00.0	In the coming week, Rwanda marks 30 years since its genocide.
0:04.0	The White House hosts leaders from Japan and the Philippines,
0:07.0	and the Eurovision Song Contest marks 50 years since Abba's big moment.
0:12.0	It's April 4, 2024 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.
0:28.3	And I'm Carl Ann Robbins.
0:30.3	Bob, welcome back.
0:31.6	Thank you.
0:32.1	Did you have a fun time?
0:32.8	I did.
0:33.2	Thank you very much.
0:34.0	Cold Easter break, but it was nice.
0:36.0	Well, this is quite a transition here then. So let's start in Rwanda.
0:40.7	On Sunday, April 7th, the country is going to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the ethnic genocide against the Tutsi population.
0:48.5	In over 100 days, a radical extremist faction of Hutu's killed 800,000 Rwanda's. The United States, France,
0:56.6	the UN Security Council, all failed horribly. And in a video to be released this Sunday,
1:03.0	President Emmanuel Macron of France says that France, which could have stopped the genocide
1:07.2	with its Western and African allies, lacked the will to do so. Rwanda these days has a
1:12.6	really complicated standing in the world, and its president, Paul Kagami, has been called the
1:16.7	West's favorite autocrat. How should we be feeling about this anniversary, and how should we be feeling
1:21.6	about our relationship with Rwanda? Well, as you had set up, Carlet, complicated, it doesn't begin to
1:27.4	say what the relationship's like,
1:29.4	but it has to certainly be pegged back to the moment of the genocide.
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