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 […]
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has held its final hearings into crimes carried out during the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 people died. In more than 20 years of operation, the UN-backed court has indicted 93 people for their roles in the violence. It was the first […]
Abagabo batatu bafungiye kuri sitasiyo ya Kibungo aho bakurikiranyweho icyaha cyo gusenya inyubako n’ibikoresho by’umuturanyi wabo wacitse ku icumu rya Jenoside. Abo bagabo bakurikiranyweho kandi gushyira inginga nini n’ibuye ry’ibiro 30 ku muryango no ku madirishya y’inzu y’uwo wacitse ku icumu kugirango atabona uko asohoka ngo atabaze. Nk’uko […]
Arusha, April 14, 2015 (FH) – Lawyers for Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, the only woman held by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), on Tuesday called for her to be acquitted on appeal. The plea came as appeals hearings started for Nyiramasuhuko, former Minister of Family Affairs, in the […]
Umugabo witwa Nshimiyimana Theophile utuye mu Kagari ka Nyarutarama mu Murenge wa Byumba mu Karere ka Gicumbi yishimira ko “Abubatsi b’Amahoro” bamufashije gusubirana n’umugore we yari yarirukanye amuhoye ubwoko bwe. Nshimiyimana avuga ko yashakanye n’umugore we witwa Muhimpundu Jacqueline mu mwaka w’1997 nyuma aza gucengezwamo amatwara na Mama […]
Ahagana mu ma saa kumi z’igitondo cyo ku wa 13 Mata 2015, mu Karere ka Rusizi mu Murenge wa Bugarama mu Kagari ka Pera mu Mudugudu wa Kinamba, umugore warokotse Jenoside yakorewe abatutsi mu w’1994 witwa Solina Mukantagozera yasohotse ajyanye umwana we kwiherera afatwa n’abantu babiri nyuma yo […]
Jean Ndorimana, a Roman Catholic Brother, has criticised his church for alleged complicity in the Genocide against the Tutsi. Addressing thousands of students and residents in Nyagatare District, on Thursday, Ndorimana said despite clear signs that a genocide was in the pipeline, the Church remained silent. A religious […]
Kuri sitasiyo ya polisi ya Nyakarambi mu karere ka Kirehe hafungiye abantu babiri bakekwaho ibyaha by’ingengabitekerezo ya Jenoside no gupfobya Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu 1994. Mu gihe kiri munsi y’icyumweru kimwe abamaze gukurikiranwaho icyaha cy’ingengabitekerezo ya Jenoside baragera kuri 30 Uwitwa Seminani Emmanuel na mushiki we bo mu […]
Abarokotse Jenoside bo mu murenge wa Rukumberi mu karere ka Ngoma baravuga ko ubumwe n’ubwiyunge mu Banyarwanda ari ngombwa ariko ngo babangamiwe na bamwe mu bagize uruhare muri Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi babatoteza mu kubakorera ibikorwa by’urugomo. Abarokotse Jenoside b’i Rukumberi bavuga ko abantu bajya mu mirima yabo bakabatemera […]
On March 25, 1998, President Bill Clinton expressed regret for failing to halt genocide in Rwanda, saying that he didn’t “fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which [Rwandans] were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror.” But U.S. officials in Rwanda had been warned more than a […]
Uyu munsi itariki 7 Mata 2015, u Rwanda n’amahanga bibutse jenoside yakorewe abatutsi ku nshuro ya 21. Ubutumwa bwatanzwe bwiganje ku zihe ngingo? Ni ibiki bidasanzwe mu mitegurire byagaragaye ugereranyije no kwibuka ku nshuro ya 20 n’izindi nshuro zabanje? 1.Nta mihango rusange yatumiwemo abaturage basanzwe yateguwe ku rwego […]
Today the white House issued a press release in remembrance of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The statement posted on the official web site of the white house reads: Twenty-one years ago today, a genocide began that would claim the lives of more than 800,000 […]
Leta y’u Rwanda yihaye igihe kingana n’umwaka cyo kwishyuza ku ngufu abatsinzwe imanza z’imitungo zaciwe n’inkiko Gacaca bakanga kwishyura. si Ubwambere icyakora yihaye igihe, nyamara ikibazo kikaba kimaze imyaka irenga 21. Minisitiri w’Intebe Anastase Murekezi yagaragaje iki kibazo cy’abatsinzwe imanza z’imitungo binangiye kwishyura ku bagize Inteko Ishinga Amategeko, […]
The Rwandan President Paul Kagame, commented on the highly controversial ”murder” of Rwigara Assinapol, a prominent business man and a survivor of genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Rwigara’s children petitioned the president himself calling for an independent investigation over the mysterious accident of their parent. In a […]
A woman who singled out members of Tutsi minority tribe in Rwanda for death lied on her application for U.S. citizenship, an appeals court affirmed last week, and must complete her sentence for the crime. Beatrice Munyenyezi’s husband, Arsene Shalom Ntahobali, led the Interahamwe militia of Rwanda’s then-ruling […]
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 […]
Our Analysis Better late than never! The New Times Rwanda published two consecutive articles on the need to provide reparation for survivors. It is very encouraging that the state media is now covering sensitive topics such as reparation for survivors. The issue of reparations including compensation was considered […]
As far as Aloys Rwamasirabo can recall, it’s been about eight years since a Gacaca court in his Western Province’s Nyange Sector in Karongi District ordered several Genocide convicts to pay him about Rwf3.5 million for destroying his house and looting his cows and furniture during the 1994 […]
Mukabose Emeritha umubyeyi warokotse Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi agasigara ari incike aratabaza kuko ngo akomeje gukorerwa ihohoterwa. Atuye mu murenge wa Rubengera, Akagali ka Ruragwe, Umudugudu wa Rutaro, muri Karongi. Umwaka ushize abantu batamenyekanye bamusenyeye inzu none ngo bongeye baroga inka ye yaramaranye imyaka ine ihaka biyiviramo gupfa. Iyi […]
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 […]
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