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Un an avant le génocide, que savait-on à propos du Rwanda?
Dix neuf ans après, a-t-on réellement compris ce que fut le génocide au Rwanda , ou l’a-t-on déjà oublié ? Lorsque l’on voit le président tanzanien Jakaya Kikwete enjoindre à son homologue rwandais...
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Forgotten History: King Leopold and The Congo
King Leopold II of Belgium propagated the least talked about mass murder in history. King Leopold’s African colony in the Congo gave him access to 1 million square miles and 20 million people he could...
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Five Rwandans Arrested by UK Metropolitan Police Over 1994 Genocide
Five Rwandans living in Britain for more than a decade were today arrested on an extradition warrant by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of involvement in their native country’s 1994 genocide. Four...
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Ban Ki-moon Visits DR Congo: Ticks off Army While Offering Aid
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last week, and the publicity, coupled with a $1 billion aid package from the World Bank, inadvertently...
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When DR Congo army attacks Hutu rebels, civilians pay the price
In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a region infamous for its distinction as the ‘most dangerous place in the world to be a woman,’ civil and humanitarian officials now report that the...
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Fresh FDLR Attacks in Congo Highlight Complexity of Protecting Civilians
Eight years after the official end to the war in Congo, violence endures in the eastern portion of the country as the region remains overrun with rebel groups leaving civilians to bear the brunt of...
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FDLR Doctrine: ‘We have to kill Tutsis wherever they are’
Hundreds of thousands of people were massacred during the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda. Now, in the crucible of the ensuing war in neighbouring Congo, the fugitive killers are training their children to...
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Blaming the victim and criminal denial
By Sara Elise Brown and Henry C. Theriault “Blaming the victim” is a tried and true method of genocide rationalization and denial, and has been used in case after case: “The Jews” were against Germany...
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The use and abuse of refugees in Zaire/DR Congo
I Introduction Rwanda is the smallest country in the region, one-ninetieth the size of neighboring Zaire. Between 6 April and the beginning of July 1996, approximately 800,000 Tutsi Rwandese were...
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Aid and Accountability: A Necessary Debate required
By Sophie Delaunay In 2010, the international aid system came under scrutiny in the media, sparked in great part by its responses to the crises in Haiti and other parts of the world. “Where is the...
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Korean company to build Rwanda 4G network
A year after the South African government rejected a plan to sell 20% of Telkom to KT Corp, the Korean firm is making a big investment splash elsewhere on the continent. A year after having its offer...
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One Million Bones To Transform the Mall Into a Symbolic Mass Grave
For the past few months, students, families, as well as church and synagogue groups around the D.C. area have been busy making human bones out of materials like plaster, glass, metal or wood. In fact,...
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The Politics of Denialism: The Strange Case of Rwanda and the Lunatics
Book Review: THE POLITICS OF GENOCIDE. By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson–Monthly Review Press, New York, 2010 By Gerald Caplan, Pambazuka News Edward Herman is a professor emeritus at the...
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Restorative Justice for Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide
Who knows best what the needs of Rwandan genocide survivors are as they seek to rebuild their lives? Genocide survivors themselves! As the Rwandan New Times recently reported, an October 2012...
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La Relaxe de Pierre Péan
Par Servilien M. Sebasoni La relaxe de Pierre Péan à Paris, le blanchiment de Zigiranyirazo et de Hormisdas à Arusha dépassent l’anecdote… Même s’il faut éviter l’amalgame et de mélanger tout cela....
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German prosecutors charge 3 with membership in FDLR involved in DR Congo...
BERLIN – June 11, 2013 German prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against three men whom they accuse of membership in an ethnic Hutu militia involved in killing Congolese civilians. Bernard T.,...
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A Bone to Pick With Genocide? Try a Million
By Simone Pathe For 48 hours, the grass on the National Mall disappeared underneath a sea of white and grey “bones,” a symbolic mass grave on the footsteps of the U.S. Capitol. The One Million Bones...
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Rwanda Is Second World’s Most Investment-friendly
By: Kingsley Opurum The Rwandan ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Joseph Habineza, has indepth knowledge about Nigeria having lived and worked in the country before his appointment as an envoy. In this...
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Speaking truth to Power—‘Religion has a Unique Capacity to Make Good People...
IN THE days to come, we may be hearing a lot more about the question of genocide, for at least two reasons. A row has broken out between the Turkish government and Pope Francis over his use of the word...
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Prosecutor of ICTR urges cooperation to catch Rwandan fugitives
With nine men linked to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda still on the run, the Prosecutor who would help to try them is today urging Member States to cooperate with the United Nations war crimes tribunal...
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