The role of France in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi has become a piece of common knowledge now. Watch France 24 report revealing new documents suggesting that orders not to arrest those responsible for the genocide of Tutsi came straight from Elysee, the French President office. Click […]
French judges have rejected a bid by survivors of Rwanda’s genocide to reopen an investigation into claims that French troops were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people they had promised to rescue.A source close to the case said Wednesday that three war crimes judges had on […]
The National Public Prosecution Authority of Rwanda (NPPA) in 2017-2018 issued 218 indictments against fugitives of the 1994 genocide, Prosecutor General Jean Bosco Mutangana said yesterday on Twitter. Click here to access the list and photos of some of the world’ most dangerous bad guys of our […]
A French court on Friday upheld life sentences for two former Rwandan mayors for taking part in the massacre of hundreds of ethnic Tutsis during the country’s 1994 genocide. Octavien Ngenzi, 60, and Tito Barahira, 67, had launched an appeal after they were found guilty in 2016 of […]
When I opened up my social media feed yesterday, the news about Bernard Kouchner, the French ex- Foreign Minister was a headline. In an interview with a French daily newspaper, La Croix, Kouchner said on Sunday 7/1/2018 that in 1994 France had “committed a very heavy political mistake” […]
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 […]
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) must in theory close its doors on December 31. On November 8, it celebrated twenty years of existence. While the Tribunal’s contribution to fighting impunity is clear, observers point to remaining grey areas of its legacy. These include the failure to […]
I Paris mu gihugu cy’ u Bufaransa hakorewe urugendo rugamije gusaba no kumvisha ubutabera ko bwakurikirana ingabo z’ icyo gihugu zafashe abagore ku ngufu muri jenoside yakorewe abatutsi. Abitabiriye uru rugendo mu mujyi wa Paris bavugaga ko hari ingabo z’ abafaransa zagiye zifata ku ngufu impunzi z’abatutsi muri […]
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 […]
French activists on Monday filed a fresh lawsuit against one Félicien Baligira, who is accused of masterminding the death of more than 6,000 in the former Cyangugu Prefecture during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Baligira, who currently resides in Nantes, a city in western France, is said […]
The faithful attend a service at St. Michel church. The Church is accused of not doing enough in reconciliation efforts. File. The attitude of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the country’s dark history that led to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, and its role in helping to […]
Songa Samuel Havugimana, un survivant du massacre de Kesho. © AFP Autour de la colline de Kesho, où environ 1.400 Tutsi ont été assassinés le 8 avril 1994, des rescapés se souviennent de Pascal Simbikangwa, premier Rwandais jugé en France pour le génocide de 1994, comme d’un […]
Rwanda’s Genocide survivors’ community has protested against the publication of an instruction manual by France’s Ministry of Education, which affirms that the Genocide perpetrated in Rwanda in 1994 was committed by Tutsi against Hutu. The survivors who subscribe to an umbrella organization (IBUKA) have written up an official […]
The year 2014 looks like a key one for French justice, which is set to open its first trial related to the anti-Tutsi genocide of 1994. In the meantime, judicial investigations could be completed in a case referred to France by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), […]
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 […]
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 […]
Couple in hunt for Rwanda’s killers Alain and Dafroza Gauthier have devoted a decade to tracking down dozens of suspected accomplices of the Rwandan genocide. Picture: Reuters They are often compared to Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, the activist couple famed in the 1960s for tracking down Nazis from […]
Photo/ internet/Jean Kambanda This is with reference to Felly Kimenyi’s column, “Time up for the unending French court drama on matters of Genocide”, in The New Times of September 19. Lest anyone forget, the Bagosora-Sindikubwabo-Kambanda genocidal interim government was established at the residence of the then French Ambassador […]
By Felly Kimenyi At the launch of the Judicial Year recently, the outgoing Prosecutor-General, in his presentation, said, rather to my exasperation, that the French judiciary intended to conduct one trial of an unnamed suspect which will symbolise the 20th commemoration of the Genocide that will be […]
