News: Monday Morning Fun with Google Reader

• Children playing a game in which they mimic rape? South Africans are questioning the development of a “culture of violence” in their new democracy. It’s about f-ing time, is all I have to say.
• Collaboration! It’s a beautiful thing. Rwanda is hosting a workshop on multi-national peace operations, with a focus on Darfur and Somalia. Military officials from 17 African nations are in attendance.
• Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that he is “distressed” by the protests in Tibet, and hopes they can be resolved through non-violent means. Too late for that, buddy. Police roundups of suspected protesters…promises of tough reprisals…it doesn’t take much to put two and two together. China hasn’t even acted like it was interested in any solution other than violent crackdown, and has even garnered strong domestic support for its methods (via dishonest propaganda, of course).
• The FDLR in the eastern DRC ignored an ultimatum to disarm (or else?) by March 15. Quelle surprise.
• Insight into the violence in the Central African Republic.
• UN troops withdrew from parts of Kosovo following violent clashes with Serbian nationalists.