Published on: 29 March 2011
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment former Rwandan Director in the Ministry of Women and Family Affairs, Jean-Baptiste Gatete, for genocide, and extermination as a crime against humanity. (more…)
Date: 28 Mar 2011
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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the seventeenth Commemoration of the Genocide in Rwanda, observed 7 April: (more…)
By Gerald Mbanda
Guardian on Sunday 27th March 2011
American Law Professor Peter Erlinder on March 7th, 2011, announced the publication of a book length article in the DePaul University Law School Journal for social Justice today: The United Nations Ad Hoc Tribunal for Rwanda: International Justice or Judicially-Constructed Victors’ Impunity. (more…)
The defendant former mayor from Rwanda was also politically active in his German exile. Even the president of the Hutu militia FDLR has supported him. (more…)
Warren M. Christopher, who helped negotiate a settlement to the Iran hostage crisis in 1980 and who confronted the ethnic violence in the Balkans and Rwanda while serving as secretary of state during President Bill Clinton’s first term, died March 18 at his home in Los Angeles of complications from kidney and bladder cancer. He was 85. (more…)
WATERLOO — The world was not listening to Romeo Dallaire when he warned of the impending Rwandan genocide, and hundreds of thousands were slaughtered, including 300,000 children.
And from that horrific experience, he wonders what, if anything we have learned. (more…)
BY MAGNUS MAZIMPAKA–FRIDAY, 18 MARCH 2011
37 men accused of a spate of attacks across Rwanda are alleged FDLR agents (more…)
By BIZIMANA Jean Damascène, LL.D–12 March 2011
It is an established fact: every time genocide is committed, it is followed by its denial.[1] With regard to the genocide against the Tutsi, denial is characterized by two specific aspects. First, it intensifies as each annual commemoration day draws near; then, it takes on changing and innovative forms depending on the times. (more…)
By Felix M. NDAHINDA
The Hague Peace Palace – premises of the International Court of Justice among other institutions – hosted on 26th April 2008 a controversial event under the catchy title: “Conference on Peace and Development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa”. The gathering featured Mr “Hotel Rwanda” Paul Rusesabagina who was made famous worldwide by a 2004 Hollywood movie for his “heroism” in saving lives of more than a thousand peoples during the infamous genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994. (more…)
By Andrew Stobo Sniderman
If machetes (rise and) fall in Africa and no American voters are listening, do American politicians care? No, says history. “If every member of the House and Senate had received one hundred letters from people back home saying we have to do something about Rwanda,” a senator explained in 1994 after the United States stood by while 800,000 people were butchered in three months, “then I think the response would have been different.” No one wrote, and popular silence abetted official indifference. (more…)
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