Today is World Human Rights Day. Right now, the rights of genocide survivors to get adequate and prompt reparation remains in limbo. This is obviously in stark violation of article 8 […]
Reparation for Genocide Survivors is a Human Right
A Key Pattern that all 20th Century #Genocides have in common
The German government yesterday returned human remains of the Herero and Nama genocide victims from present-day Namibia. The remains had been stored in German’s hospitals, museums, and universities for decades for scientific experiments to prove the racial superiority of white Europeans.
As I read about this moving development, I realized that one key factor is strikingly at the core of all major genocides of the 20th century…
Exclusive: United States’ secrets about Rwanda genocide revealed
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 […]
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 […]
A Genocide Widow Killed as she Seeks Compensation
According to the Rwandan daily newspaper IzubaRirashe.[1]MukamuraraSpeciose, a 52-year-old genocide survivor, was found dead on February 3, 2014, in her house located in the Rulindo district in the northern province of Rwanda. Jurithe […]
FARG appeared before Parliament over mismanagement of genocide survivors’s money
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 […]
From Kigali to Cooperstown: The First Retreat of Rwandan Genocide Survivors Living in America
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 […]
Ruhango: Kutishyura abarokotse jenoside ibyo basahuwe bibangamiye ubumwe n’ubwiyunge
Photo/Logo Gacaca Abarokotse jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu 1994 bo mu murenge wa Ruhango akarere ka Ruhango, baravuga ko bibabaje cyane kubona hashira imyaka 20 batarishyurwa imitungo yabo yangijwe mu gihe cya jenoside, […]
New York: Symposium on Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda
In a Symposium co-organized by the Permanent Mission of Rwanda and the Department of Public Information (DPI) at the UN headquarter in New York last week, Ms, Jacqueline Murekatete, a NY attorney, […]
Time: 19 years
Close to two decades have now passed since the start of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda. As years go by, Survivors mourns and keeps the memory of their beloved ones […]
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