More than three decades after the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, when hundreds of thousands of people were killed in roughly one hundred days, the long pursuit of justice has not faded. It has shifted from the hills and roadblocks of Rwanda to courtrooms in Boston, Paris, The Hague, and Kigali, carried by survivors who refuse to let the world forget. In a Boston federal courtroom, a jury convicted Eric Tabaro Nshimiye, a 54-year-old Rwandan-born man who had been living in Ohio, of four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. The conviction did not come…

There are certain weeks in a region’s life when everything seems to go wrong at once, and the air fills with tension, suspicion, and half-spoken fears. For Singapore and Indonesia, one such week began with a sharp stock market fall in Jakarta and quickly spiraled into something more unsettling: a wave of online falsehoods that tried to turn a neighbor into a scapegoat. On October 15, the global index provider MSCI announced it was reviewing Indonesia’s market status, raising questions about market governance. The announcement alone was enough to trigger a major sell-off, and investors, already nervous, began looking for…