Ten years ago, the book “The Men Who Killed Me” was published. It gave 17 of the survivors a stage upon which they could share their photos, harrowing experiences, and narrative with the world, to bear witness to the crimes committed against hundreds of thousands of others. Four out of the 17 have sadly deceased already due to…
Guest post by Mireille Ishimwe:
The song Mbahoze nte by Uwera Florida was playing in my earphones today, since I learned about the tragic passing of Fabienne Isimbi, a genocide survivor of almost my age. Ishimwe reflects on the tragic passing of her fellow young survivor, the cause of her death, and what it means to other survivors…
Frederick Nietzsche is not usually my favorite philosopher, but he was right when he said ‘’ What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger’’. These survivors are different in many ways but they all share two things in common: They miraculously defied death by Hutu’s machete in 1994 genocide […]
Guest post by Olivier U. Bahizi:
Imyaka 25 igiye gushira! Bamwe muri twe twari abana, ubu bashobora kwibuka ibyabaye, abandi tubyumva mu nkuru. Cyakora twese tubona ingaruka zabyo, kuko bamwe twibona turi twenyine, tutagira abo duhamagara ‘papa cyangwa mama’, ni uko tukemera ko ibyo batubwira byabayeho koko: baratwishe! Umuvandimwe wanjye aherutse kugira ikibazo ndibugarukeho muri iyi nyandiko, cyatumye ntekereza byinshi ku rusobe rw’ingaruka za jenoside abarokotse banyuramo. Soma inkuru irambuye…
Watch the 2-minute breathtaking story of Yannick on Spectrum news. A Genocide survivor, Yannick Kabuguza, was 4 years old when machete-wielding Hutu extremists invaded his home in Kigali and killed everyone he loved — his mom, dad, siblings, uncles, aunties and grandma. He was struck with a […]
Abarokotse Jenoside batishoboye bagera kuri 90 bo mu murenge wa Nyakarenzo, mu karere ka Rusizi bararira ayo kwarika nyuma y’uko bamaze amezi agera kuri 7 inkunga y’ingoboka bavuga ko bahabwaga n’ikigega FARG ngo ibashe kubatunga itabageraho, nyamara abo mu yindi mirenge yose y’aka karere bayibona. Mu kiganiro n’Imvaho […]
Imyaka irenga makumyabiri n’umwe abacitse ku icumu babuze ababo barenga miliyoni, n’imitungo ibarirwa mu mamiliyari menshi y’amanyarwanda isahuwe indi igasenywa muri jenoside yakorewe abatutsi mu 1994. Icyumweru cyasojwe ku itariki 29/06/2015, kitiriwe icyumweru cy’ubufasha mu mategeko , Leta n’abafatanyabikorwa ba sosiyete sivile bari barahiriye kurangiza imanza hafi ibihumbi […]
bagize iri tsinda bavuga ko muri jenoside biciwe abavandimwe babo ndetse n’ababyeyi ngo barahunga bajyana n’imwe mu miryango yabo, aba ari na bo babarera babafasha kwiga kugeza bashoje amasomo yabo, dore abenshi muri bo bari bakiri bato mu gihe cya jenoside. Nyuma ya jenoside yakorewe abatutsi mu 1994 […]
The New Times Rwanda wrote today: Thousands of the survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi are vulnerable, many of them elderly without relatives to look after them. Although the fund for support of Genocide survivors (FARG) has been doing a lot to see that vulnerable Genocide […]
Kambuguje w’ikigero cy’imyaka 70 yabwiye Umuseke ko aho ari ubu ntaho bitaniye no kuba hanze ndetse indwara ubu arwaye yazitewe n’imbeho nyinshi imusanga mu nzu. Uyu mukecuru aba mu gihande kimwe kitaguye cy’iyi nzu. Avuga ko yasasbye kenshi ubuyobozi ko bwamufasha gusana iyi nzu na mbere itaragwa ntabikorerwe. […]
Abarokotse Jenoside yakorewe abatutsi batishiboye bo mu Murenge wa Mamba ho mu Karere ka Gisagara, mu Ntara y’Amajyepfo bahangayikishijwe no kuba inkunga y’amafaranga y’u Rwanda miliyoni 4 bagenewe na FARG atabagezeho. Buri mwaka umugenzuzi mukuru w’Imari ya Leta agaragaza akayabo k’amafaranga y’abacitsed ku icumu anyerezwa cyangwa akoreshwa ibindi […]
Kigali 23/04/2015: As Rwandans await the final verdict in the longest ever trial by ICTR that has spanned 14 years, the reparation of Genocide survivors still hangs in balance. If no decision is taken about the reparation of survivors before the tribunal winds up by December, efforts to […]
Regis Umugiraneza has emerged winner of this year’s Innovative Entrepreneurship Award organised by Survivors Fund, Youth Employment and Training Programme and Association of Student Survivors (AERG). Umugiraneza, who pitched a business idea about a sweet pasta project for producing spaghetti from sweet potatoes, beat other nine contestants to […]
Ikigega cy’igihugu gishinzwe gutera inkunga abarokotse Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi batishoboye (FARG) bwatangaje ko hagikenewe imbaraga nyinshi mu gusana no kububakira bundi bushya amacumbi, igikorwa bwemeza ko gikeneye amafaranga y’u Rwanda asanga miliyari 36. Ikibazo cy’amacumbi y’abarokotse Jenoside asenyuka mu buryo budasobanutse, n’icy’abatarabona aho bakinga umusaya magingo aya, ni […]
Kizito Mihigo/ Photo internet Kigali Friday 27/02/2014: A well-known Rwandan singer and a genocide survivor Kizito Mihigo, has been sentenced to ten years in prison by a high court in Kigali for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to murder government officials including President Paul Kagame. Mihigo has […]
The survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda continue to experience extreme poverty and poor health conditions 20 years on. Yesterday, The Rwanda’s leading online newspaper known ”Igihe.com” published chocking images of a survivor’s family who live in terrible conditions in the capital Kigali. […]
Two decades later, it is chocking to hear stories of genocide survivors who still find it hard to secure at least one meal per day. The Government of Rwanda purports to have spent millions of Rwandan Francs for supporting the most vulnerable survivors since the inception of the […]
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 […]
Minister Kaboneka responds to queries from senators at Parliament yesterday. (Timothy Kisambira) Two decades later, genocide orphans are still facing several difficulties to recover the assets left by their parents killed in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. The only survivor of his family, Karekezi learned that his […]
Abagore babiri bafatiwe ku ngufu ku Muhima mu Mujyi wa Kigali mu gihe cya Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi, batewe inkeke n’umugabo witwa Irunga Silas bareze kubafata ku ngufu agakatirwa burundu y’uwihariko n’Inkiko Gacaca, ariko akaba akomeje gusaba kujuririra mu nkiko zisanzwe. Umwe muri aba bagore w’imyaka 49 y’amavuko wavuganye […]
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