Photo/File Nyuma y’itoroka ry’imfungwa zigera kuri eshanu (5) zari zifungiye icyaha cya Jenoside muri gereza ya Huye yahoze yitwa karubanda, umuyobozi wiyo gereza, bwana Mugororotsi Prosper yarahagaritswe. Komiseri ushinzwe imari n’ubutegetsi mu rwego rw’igihugu rushinzwe imfungwa n’abagororwa(RCS), Bwana Anastase Nabahire, yemeje ko ayo makuru ari yo. Yagize ati: […]
Photo/insightonconflict.com An expert in peace building and reconciliation in post-conflict Rwanda, Guinea Bissau, Burundi and Timor-Leste Jean-Paul Mugiraneza, discusses why the victims of the Tutsi Genocide are still struggling to receive financial compensation for their physical and material loss 20 years on, and asks, can there […]
Uwinkindi leaves court. His lawyers, Gatera Gashabana and Jean Baptiste Niyibizi, have been paid Rwf30m in fees accumulated between May and October last year by the government. The New Times/File The Ministry of Justice is in talks with the Kigali Bar Association, the professional body of lawyers in […]
Karwera/Photo igihe.com Kigali: Mme Sperancie Karwera Mutwe, suspectée de génocide, a été arrêté à Cergy en France selon une lettre de l’Ambassade du Rwanda à Paris adressée à l’Autorité des poursuites pénales du Rwanda (NPPA, National Public Prosecution Authority). Sperancie Karwera Mutwe a été arrêtée sur base d’un […]
La journaliste Marie Fierens Photo/Rwandaise.com Entretien Fierens, Marie / Paulus, Julie Dans un entretien avec Julien Paulus de ”Rwandaise.com”, la journaliste Marie Fierens a clairement évoqué les […]
A dilapidated house belonging to an elderly survivor of the Genocide. The New Times/ Timothy Kisambira. The government is mulling over plans to offer special assistance to vulnerable elderly citizens among the survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The plan would entail providing survivors with shelter […]
Genocide inmates Gacaca Photo/Internet As we approach the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide against the Tutsi in April 2014 questions about justice and reconciliation become ever more relevant. Rwanda’s restorative justice process enacted by gacaca (community courts) sentenced thousands of perpetrators of genocide to pay their victims […]
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Photo: Victims of Charles Taylor’s crimes Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor has asked to serve his 50-year sentence for war crimes in Rwanda, rather than the UK. In a letter sent to the court that convicted him, he says it would be easier – and less expensive – for […]
Top-bottom: Bernard Munyagishari and Leon Mugesera Arusha, October 10, 2013 (FH) – Ever since being transferred to Rwanda in July by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), former militiaman Bernard Munyagishari has been fighting to have his genocide trial conducted in French, rather than the Rwandan language […]
The National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide (CNLG) has recently released an important piece of research on the psychosocial situation of orphaned youth survivors. 19 years on from the genocide against the Tutsi, many survivors continue to face challenges in life as a consequence of the devastation […]
Jean Uwinkindi leaves court after a past appearance. The New Times/File The High Court on Friday approved one more month for a team of defense lawyers for Jean Uwinkindi to finish interviewing 38 Rwanda-based witnesses and start defending the accused. After missing the deadline of October 3 because […]
Health minister Binagwaho (c), CHUK director Hategekimana (L), visiting surgeon Saboo check on a patient who underwent surgery yesterday. The New Times/ John Mbanda. About 358 genocide survivors were screened for free plastic surgery on minor and major scars during a ten-day exercise dubbed; “The 2013 Rotary Medical […]
On October 7th the US Ambassador to the UN Samatha Powers along with United Nations Security council ( UNSC ) team including its current President amb. Agshin Mehdyev , paid tribute to over 250,000 buried in the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre . Recalling how the united nations failed […]
Photo/igihe.com Ijambo rya Nyakubahwa Madame Jeannette Kagame mu muhango wo gusoza umwiherero w’Abakobwa – Banyamuryango ba AERG 2013 ; Rwamagana, 6 Ukwakira 2013 Nyakubahwa Minisitiri w’Uburezi, Nyakubahwa Munyamabanga wa Leta muri Minaloc, Nyakubahwa Gouvernor, Ba Nyakubahwa bahagarariye Ingabo na Police Ba Nyakubahwa mwese muteraniye hano Banyamuryango ba AERG, bana […]
Mrs Kagame and some of the 400 girls under Association of Genocide Survivor Students (AERG) after the ‘Now I am Stronger’ forum yesterday. The New Times/ Village Urugwiro Rwandan youth have been challenged to take on today’s challenges head on and relentlessly work hard toward a bright […]
Visitors at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. Many suspects are still roaming Western countries. The New Times/File A 37-year-old man was on Tuesday referred to a Dutch court for a hearing that will determine whether he will be extradited to face trial for his role in the 1994 […]
On the basis of an extradition request by Rwanda, Jean Claude Iyamuremye, resident of the Dutch municipality of Voorburg has been placed under arrest today. He is suspected of involvement in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Jean-Claude Iyamuremye had already been arrested by the Netherlands Police […]
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