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 […]
Survivors’ perspective on ICTR and memorialisation efforts
Mrs. Samantha Lakin, a Ph.D. candidate at The Strassler Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, and I have last month authored a short paper on justice and memorialization in post-genocide Rwanda. The paper was […]
The Government & ICTR speak out on reparation for survivors
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 […]
ICTR holds final hearings
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 […]
Will Genocide convicts ever pay back all looted property?
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 […]
Rwanda: A genocide survivor, Kizito Mihigo sentenced to 10 years over ‘terrorism’
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 […]
Over 30, 000 GENOCIDE CONVICTS DISAPPEARED FROM COMMUNITY WORK (TIG)
Some 30.000 Rwandans sentenced to community service for their role in the 1994 genocide have disappeared, according to the Rwandan prison authorities. Community service was introduced under a Rwandan law as an […]
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