Top officials of the Fund for the Support of Genocide Survivors (FARG) were on Thursday tasked by lawmakers to explain errors that were noticed in coordination and implementation of their directives that cost taxpayers millions of francs. Appearing before the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC), FARG officials were […]
By DANIEL SABIITI SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT in the EASTAFRICAN http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/ Kigali 18.04.2014/ Ibuka has released a report indicating that at least 168 genocide survivors, were killed between 2002 and 2014, in what is believed to be an attempt to stop them from giving evidence on the planning and execution […]
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 alternative to prison for certain categories of genocide perpetrator who confessed. One of the goals was […]
Photo: Kabuga Felicien The United States government is committed to working closely with Rwanda, Interpol and a UN tribunal in renewed effort to bring to book the nine key suspects of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi who are wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda […]
Mbarushimana on arrival at Kigali International Airport from Denmark earlier this month. File A judge at Nyarugunga Primary Court yesterday ordered the Kigali Bar Association to avail Genocide suspect Emmanuel Mbarushimana, the full list of lawyers signed by the association’s head. Extradited from Denmark earlier this month, Mbarushimana, […]
“I don’t have to forgive people who never showed any love or respect for the lives of my loved ones, nor any sign of repentance. But I have to live with them, because I don’t have a choice.” Marie G., a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, is known […]
Mbarushimana on arrival in Kigali from Denmark earlier this month. He is accused of participating in the killing of Tutsi in Kabuye and surrounding areas. File. A Genocide suspect extradited to Rwanda by Denmark early this month, Emmanuel Mbarushimana, yesterday blocked his pre-trial hearing before the Nyarugunga Primary […]
A file photo taken on July 27, 1994 shows Rwandan former army chief Augustin Bizimungu sitting in a truck in near Goma (AFP Photo) The UN court for Rwanda upheld a 30-year jail term for former army chief AugustinBizimungu on Monday for his role in the 1994 genocide […]
Umuyobozi w’Akarere ka Kicukiro, Jules Paul Ndamage avuga ko nta muyobozi bakorana uvugwaho kubohoza imitungo y’imfubyi za Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi (Ifoto/Ububiko) Nyuma yo gusoza urugamba rwo kubohora igihugu no guhagarika Jenoside yakorerwaga Abatutsi mu 1994, buri kintu cyose cyarihutirwaga kuri FPR-Inkotanyi kandi hari byinshi bimaze gukorwa n’ubuyobozi buriho […]
Rucagu Boniface/Photo internet Mu gihe urubanza rwa Senateri NZIRASANAHO Anastase wahamijwe icyaha cya jenoside agakatirwa igihano cyo gufungwa burundu y’umwihariko rukomeje mu rukiko rukuru, hakomeje kwibazwa niba bwana RUCAGU Boniface na Generali GATSINZI Marcel nabo baba bagiye kuburanishwa ku byaha bya jenoside bakekwaho. Kimwe na Senateri NZIRASANAHO, bwana […]
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 […]
Yari afite abavandimwe bane nawe wa gatanu n’ababyeyi, Jenoside itangira iwabo i Gishamvu aho bari batuye yari umusore w’imyaka 28, mu gihe bahungaga we yanze guhungana n’ababyeyi b’abavandimwe ahubwo ahunga yerekeza i Burundi, mu nzira yaratemaguwe bikomeye ajugunyw amu Kanyaru ariko aza kurokoka, atashye mu Rwanda yasanze abe […]
Lausanne, Twenty years after the genocide, how do human rights activists see the process of justice and reconciliation for Rwanda? Interview with Carina Tertsakian, senior researcher on Rwanda at Human Rights Watch (HRW). Hirondelle: Twenty years after the genocide, how do you assess the work of the ICTR? […]
Photo SURF/David Russell, in middle.In the UK, at a meeting at London’s King’s College, David Russell of the UK charity SURF (Survivors Fund) launched an appeal to the international community to support reparations for survivors of the genocide. He described how more than 300,000 survivors still face severe […]
Uwacitse ku icumu rya jenoside yakorewe abatutsi, Rutsindura Gratien, w’imyaka 59 wari utuye mu murenge wa Kabwayi akarere ka ruhango ku mugoroba wo ku itariki ya 27/02/2014 yakubitswe n’itsinda rigizwe n’abo mu muryango yashinje gukora jenoside mu gihe cy’inkiko Gacaca bimuviramo urupfu. Umuyobozi wa IBUKA mu karere ka […]
A house build by FARG for a survivor in Gakenke district Photo/AERG The Rwandan Auditor general identified numerous irregularities in the management and delivery of the Government Assistance Fund for survivors (FARG) programs. The current audit of FARG identified errors in the database and various cases of ghost […]
Abacitse ku icumu baganira ku kibazo cy’indishyi Nyagatare, 2012. Photo IBUKA Itsinda ry’inzobere z’umuryango mpuzamahanga IOM (International Organization for Migration, Genève) n’urukiko mpuzamahanga rwashyiriweho u Rwanda I Arusha muri Tanzania (ICTR) kuri uyu wa gatandatu 01/02/2014 ryasoje urugendo bagiriraga mu Rwanda rugamije kugishinama no gutangiza inyigo kuburyo ikibazo […]
Quand le réalisateur de ce documentaire arrive en Belgique quelque temps après le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda en 1994, il est meurtri par la tragédie qui vient de se dérouler dans son pays, il a perdu les siens, il a perdu tout espoir. Il se méfie de […]
Gerorina Nyirandutiye, survivor of the Rwandan genocide, sits on a bench at her house in Nyamigina village, Rwanda. Photograph: Jose Cendon The severity and pace at which the Rwandan genocide unfolded begs many questions. How does a country begin to recover after such an event? Yet Rwanda serves […]
On Holocaust Memorial Day Freddie Knoller, Sokphal Din and Sophie Masereka describe how they lived through mass killings Sophie Musabe Masereka, Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guadian After the genocide that took from her a father, two brothers and a niece, which saw her survive malaria, a snakebite […]
