South African investigations become more suspicious, with Rwanda National...
It is now four months and counting since someone strangled Patrick Karegeya to death in a Sandton (Johannesburg) hotel, but neither the South African Police nor its intelligence services appear ready...
View ArticleLessons from Rwanda after genocide: do not trust the international community
One of the greatest lessons to be drawn from both the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi and the Jewish Holocaust is that one cannot rely on the international community for protection. Rabbi...
View ArticleRwanda’s outstanding improvement after genocide against the Tutsi
It has been 20 years since the genocide that took as many as a million lives and left Rwanda in ruins. So it is illuminating that a new report shows that life expectancy in the formerly splintered...
View ArticleInterview with Paul Kagame: From Genocide to Democracy, Justice, France,...
The head of state responds bluntly to all questions, even the most controversial. “I do not see how they could have made any more progress in twenty years than they have,” says with admiration Pascal...
View ArticleJews Can Learn A Lot From Rwandans
I am no Shmuley Boteach, God knows. But I have recently learned from the Forward that Boteach and I have one thing in common – we are both rabbis who have visited Rwanda. This February, on the eve of...
View Article20 Years After Genocide: Rwanda not only survives but flourishes
We were standing in an exhibition room at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, which honors the nearly 1 million people who were slaughtered during the 1994 tribal conflict in this East African country...
View ArticleFight Against Falsification of History is a Never-ending Commitment, Kagame
Full Speech by President Paul Kagame to the Tufts University Community-22 April 2014 Tufts University President Anthony Monaco, Students and Faculty, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to...
View ArticleBlack America’s silence during the genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda
It was 20 years ago this month that the monstrous Rwandan genocide unfolded. In less than 90 days, close to 1 million Rwandan Tutsis and their Hutu allies were murdered by right-wing Hutu extremists,...
View ArticleHow to understand life after genocide
April brings many moments for reflection and sorrow. On April 24, 1915, the Armenian Genocide began; the massacres in the killing fields of Cambodia began on April 17, 1975; and on April 7, 1994, the...
View ArticleDevelopment without human dignity is meaningless – President Kagame
Development is not just about human rights but also human dignity, President Paul Kagame has said. He was yesterday addressing students and faculty members at Brandeis University, Boston on Rwanda’s...
View ArticleFrance told to accept responsibility in the Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda
Renowned French author and philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has urged former ministers who served in the governments of François Mitterrand’s second term to acknowledge that France bears political and...
View ArticleJenoside Yakorewe Abatutsi Ni Ubugome Burenze Ubundi, Si Inzira Yabaganishaga...
Na: Tom Ndahiro Ku itariki ya 9 Ukuboza 1948, Umuryango w’abibumbye wasinye itegeko mpuzamahanga ryo gukumira no guhana icyaha cya jenoside. Iryo tegeko rivuga ko ari inshingano ya buri wese mu...
View ArticleDuring the Genocide Churches Betrayed Their Divine Mission- President Kagame
Yesterday, President of Rwanda, His Excellency Paul Kagame, joined Pastor Rick Warren for Kwibuka 20, a special service at Saddleback Church to honor the victims of the Rwandan genocide 20 years later...
View ArticleKagame says, ‘Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures’
SPIEGEL: Mr. President, right now the soccer World Cup is taking place and the world is looking to Africa in a way seldom seen before. Why is it that 50 years after independence, many African countries...
View ArticleAnti-Semitism and Pro-Interahamwe tendencies in France
A Paris demonstration against Prime Minister Francois Hollande’s economic policies on January 27 turned virulently anti-Semitic with shouts for Jews to leave France, less than a week after my daughter...
View ArticleMenya Uburyo bwo Gupfobya Jenoside Budakunze Kuvugwa
Na: Tom Ndahiro Ku wa 30 Mata 1994*, ni bwo Inkotanyi zageze ku kiraro cya Rusumo, zigafata umupaka w’u Rwanda na Tanzania. Zimaze gushushubikana ingabo ziyitaga Inzirabwoba. Inkotanyi zahageze hamaze...
View ArticleInterahamwe Zifitiye Urwango Abatutsi n’Abayahudi
Na: Tom Ndahiro Intambara yo kurwanya ingengabitekerezo ya jenoside, ikwiye ingamba zihariye kandi zirambye kuko nayo imaze igihe kitari gito. Ahanini izo ngamba zikwiye gushingira ku kubanza kwiga...
View ArticleA genocide survivor tells a true story about ‘Hotel Rwanda’
When it comes to the Genocide against the Tutsi, stories of survivors often go hand in hand with those of their rescuers. The genuine heroes during the Genocide have been documented and are known...
View ArticleRwanda genocide witness regrets lack of political will to stop similar...
Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide he tried to stop and stayed to witness, Roméo Dallaire still has flashbacks. In an interview before the US Holocaust Memorial Museum dinner last month, at which...
View ArticleCatholic ‘Chaplains’ paints nasty picture of church in Rwandan killings
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide during which about 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in just 100 days. Chris McGreal was in Rwanda covering the genocide for The Guardian...
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