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 first published by the International Bar Association (IBA). We have analyzed the ICTR and memorialization efforts in Rwanda from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
All Kinyarwanda services on BBC radio has been suspended with immediate effect. The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA) announced this in a statement today. The Kinyarwanda services transmitted in Rwanda on BBC World Service frequency 93.9 FM. “Over the last three weeks, RURA has received complaints of incitement, […]
Umutangabuhamya wa Kabiri mu rubanza rwa Charles Bandora yavuze ko uyu mugabo yagize uruhare muri Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi, ndetse ko yamwiboneye mu gitero cyagabwe ku Kiliziya cya Ruhuha mu cyahoze ari Komine Ngenda, ubu ni mu Karere ka Bugesera. Kuri uyu wa Kabiri, tariki 23 Nzeri, umutangabuhamya yahaswe […]
The survivors of 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda descended upon The Hayden Creek Inn in Cooperstown, NY on September 5-7. It was a typical September weekend in Cooperstown, the weather was becoming cool and the landscape was rustic and calm. The story, however, was anything but […]
Nubwo hashize igihe umunyemari Kabuga Felicien na bagenzi umunani bashakishwa kubera uruhare bashinjwa muri jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi, IBUKA n’Urukiko rwa Arusha byatangaje ko gufatwa kwabo kwakomwe mu nkokora n’ibura ry’ubushake bwa politiki z’ibihugu bimwe. Kuwa 25 Nyakanga i Kigali, u Rwanda, Leta Zunze Ubumwe z’Amerika, Urukiko mpuzamahanga rwashyiriweho […]
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 […]
STOCKHOLM—A Swedish court of appeal on Thursday upheld a life prison sentence for Stanislas Mbanenande, the first person in Sweden to be convicted of genocide, for crimes committed during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The 55-year-old Swedish citizen of Rwandan origin was first sentenced by a Stockholm district […]
Photo/Guardian: L-R: Espérance Nyirandegeya alias Mwamina, sentenced to life in jail for genocide Songs, sketches, and poems are performed against a rich background. People dance wildly, applaud loudly in the heat, their faces running with sweat.Festivities like this are not uncommon in Kigali central prison, which is popularly […]
The New Zealand diplomat who was president of the Security Council in April 1994 admits the U.N. “utterly failed” to prevent the slaughter of up to one million people in Rwanda. He was speaking at a council meeting held to mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide. New […]
