Judi Rever

Montreal

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

journalist, author In Praise of Blood https://t.co/5DA5TdeIUN… journaliste, auteure Rwanda l'éloge du sang https://t.co/PygXSzANQD…

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Articles

Shell exits Nigeria, leaving behind trail of environmental degradation

1 month ago | canadiandimension.com | Judi Rever

I’ll never forget seeing the vast, charcoal wasteland left from a devastating oil spill in the village of Ebubu, in the heart of Ogoniland in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. The oil from a pipeline belonging to the Anglo Dutch oil group Shell had burst three decades before my visit, destroying the community’s streams and aquatic life. The contamination had not been cleaned up in 1999 and I could not fathom how locals could survive in an environment covered in tar.
Paul Kagame’s foray in eastern Congo leaves thousands dead and sparks fears of a broader war

Feb 7, 2025 | canadiandimension.com | Judi Rever

On the night of October 6, 1996, fighters loyal to Paul Kagame entered Lemera Hospital in eastern Congo and used bayonets and guns to kill patients in their beds. To inflict maximum misery, the attackers shot many of the patients through the mouth. Others managed to flee into surrounding forests with IV drips still dangling in their arms, only to be chased down, caught and massacred.
The State of Our Moral Disengagement

Oct 8, 2024 | worldbeyondwar.org | Judi Rever |David Swanson

Palestinians stand amid the ruins of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Photo by Mohammed Hajjar/AP. By Judi Rever, Canadian Dimension, October 8, 2024We have accepted genocide while refusing to examine our role in fuelling the violence. How do we rationalize our own inhumanity? \A US-made precision-guided bomb manufactured by Boeing shreds a little girl and renders her body unrecognizable in the arms of her mother facing oblivion.
The state of our moral disengagement

Oct 6, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Judi Rever

A US-made precision-guided bomb manufactured by Boeing shreds a little girl and renders her body unrecognizable in the arms of her mother facing oblivion. Charred and limbless survivors writhe in inconsolable torment at a hospital that has been attacked so many times it is barely functioning. Every moment of every day in Gaza, thousands of lives fragment and miseries mount.
Canadian forestation policies add fuel to the fires

Sep 4, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Judi Rever

James Steidle vividly remembers the slow death of aspen trees in the forest next to his family’s cattle ranch, nearly 15 years ago, after forestry planners in British Colombia sprayed glyphosate, an herbicide found in Roundup. The trembling aspen wilted and took on a red hue. “The glyphosate killed all the leafy vegetation. The stuff that didn’t die became stunted,” says Steidle, a woodworker and forest activist living in Prince George. “They just started blasting.
Canada’s whitewashing of Africa’s most ruthless regime

Jul 7, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Judi Rever

The use of celebrities, sports and big money to whitewash criminal regimes is a global phenomenon. Dictators count on political summits, concerts, tournaments, environmental initiatives and other large investments to launder and legitimize their reputations. At its core, whitewashing is about buying influence and control, in thinly veiled ways. But no amount of cash or star power could ever fully wash away the stains of repression, murder and poverty in a country like Rwanda.
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Jun 1, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Judi Rever

Rwanda is the ‘Wild West’ and should be removed from the mineral supply chain Judi Rever / September 25, 2023 / 7 min read Mark Twain, who wrote about thieves and conmen in America’s “Wild West,” famously said that a mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top. If there is any country where Twain’s maxim has contemporary relevance, it is Rwanda.
Students lift veil on university financing and demand end to genocide complicity

Jun 1, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Judi Rever

The politics of power and resistance are raging on campuses across Canada EducationSocial Movements The politics of power and resistance are raging on Canadian university campuses. At a campus in downtown Montréal, students protesting against Israel’s mass crimes in Gaza have declared victory and agreed to dismantle their encampment on June 6 after the board of directors at the Université du Quebec à Montréal (UQAM) promised to disclose its investments on a yearly basis and refrain from...
Will a landmark war crimes trial usher in an era of corporate accountability?

May 1, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Judi Rever

A groundbreaking criminal case against a multinational company accused of war crimes in South Sudan is now underway in Sweden, drawing parallels with the corporate complicity trials of Nuremberg in 1949. The trial in Stockholm against executives of the Swedish oil giant Lundin, which began in September 2023, is expected to change the landscape of corporate accountability for international crimes. Testimony from plaintiffs and victims will start this month.
Impediments to establishing truth about the Rwandan genocide

Apr 5, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Judi Rever

Facing history means facing ourselves. No history is hermetically sealed. One of the most serious historical tasks is to examine our role in shaping and interpreting events. It is only after scrutinizing ourselves that we are able to see where we have erred, what we may have overlooked or dismissed.