Kagame speaks at the 12th National Dialogue. President Paul Kagame has directed the minister of justice to ensure that genocide victims be compensated as soon as possible. Kagame said those with the ability to pay, should not be given the choice to decide compensation period. “It’s upon the […]
L-R: Benjamin Abtan, the president of (EGAM), French journalist Patrick de Saint Exupéry, and Alain Intwaza, the coordinator of GAERG, an association of youth Genocide survivors, hours after the arrival of the European youth in Kigali yesterday. T. Kisambira. A twenty-member delegation of young French leaders and their […]
Mu gihe icyumweru cy’icyunamo cyatangiraga mu kwibuka ku nshuro ya 20 Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi, hagaragaye amagambo akarishye cyane asesereza bamwe mu bacitse ku icumu, byerekana ko mu Banyarwanda hakiri ingengabitekerezo ya Jenoside. Mu makuru IGIHE yakuye muri Komisiyo y’igihugu ishinzwe kurwanya Jenoside(CNLG), ni uko hagiye hagaragara ibimenyetso by’ingengabitekerezo […]
Mu cyunamo cyo kwibuka ku nshuro ya 20Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi, abantu batanu bo mu karere ka Kamonyi barimo umukecuru w’imyaka 73 bagaragaweho kuvuga amagambo no gukora ibikorwa bipfobya n’ibihakana Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi. Ni ku nshuro ya gatatu umukecuru witwa Mukandoli Domitilla, utuye mu kagari ka Kigese, umurenge wa […]
Photo SURF/David Russell, in middle.In the UK, at a meeting at London’s King’s College, David Russell of the UK charity SURF (Survivors Fund) launched an appeal to the international community to support reparations for survivors of the genocide. He described how more than 300,000 survivors still face severe […]
Quand le réalisateur de ce documentaire arrive en Belgique quelque temps après le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda en 1994, il est meurtri par la tragédie qui vient de se dérouler dans son pays, il a perdu les siens, il a perdu tout espoir. Il se méfie de […]
KAGABO Charles. That is the name that still sends the chills down many a people’s spine in the present day Ruhango District, formerly Ntongwe commune. For each chill the name gives the people, the opposite reaction is the longing for the day Kagabo, a former bourgoumestre (mayor), would […]
Nzabihimana lived through the harrowing experience of repulsing attacks by Interahamwe killers in Buserero hills. The New Times/ Jean Pierre Bucyensenge. When he narrates what he went through during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, and how he miraculously survived, you might think he is just recounting a […]
Survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and activists seeking justice on their behalf can’t find enough criticism for what they describe as France’s nearly inexistent pursuit of Genocide suspects. They want Genocide fugitives living in France to face justice and the French government to apologise […]
ON MONDAY, hundreds gathered in the rural Mugina Sector, Kamonyi District, to welcome the Remembrance (Kwibuka) Flame that is on a countrywide lap of honour. Bagirishya survived the killings. TOP, youths deliver the Flame to the podium on Monday. The New Times/ JP Bucyensenge. The torch, which […]
The youth who received the Kwibuka Flame in Mugina Sector anchor it in a vase ahead of the ceremony yesterday. Kamonyi residents expressed determination to strive for prosperity as they received the Flame that many called the “messenger of hope.” The New Times/ Jean Pierre Bucyensenge. Between songs […]
Speaker: Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma / Location: Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House, London Remarks by Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma at the first of a series of commemorations to mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide. The event was hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat in partnership with […]
On Tuesday, Rwanda officially launched Kwibuka 20, a series of events organised in the run-up to the 20th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. For some, it’s early in the year and it sounds unusual given that talk of official commemoration of the Genocide normally starts […]
London and Kigali, 7th January 2014: On the international launch today of Kwibuka20, Rwanda’s official campaign to mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Survivors Fund (SURF) and its partner organisations called on the international community to continue to address the ongoing needs […]
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