Imyumvire y’Abicanyi na Politiki Yabo ya Jenoside
Ibikubiye muri iyi nyandiko ni ikiganiro cyatanzwe na Senateri Bizimana Jean Damascene ku munsi wo kwibuka abanyapolitiki bishwe mu gihe cya jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi. Icyo kiganiro yagitanze ku...
View ArticleConvictions of Mass Murderers and Their Genocidal Politics
The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi was a result of politics based on discrimination and hatred propagated in Rwanda at that time. Among the victims of the Genocide were politicians with progressive...
View ArticleDeclassified UN Cables Reveal Turning Point in 1994 Rwanda Genocide Against...
On April 12, 1994, six days after a plane carrying Rwanda’s president was shot down, setting off a wave of killings, Madeleine K. Albright, the American ambassador to the United Nations at the time,...
View ArticleRwanda need more vigilance but no dialogue with genocidal FDLR
In April 2014, the world began its 20th commemoration of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. The Rwandan government has billed this year’s event as one of Kwibuka (Kinyarwanda word for ‘remembrance’). This...
View ArticleGenocide: Difficult or Unacceptable to Remain Neutral
“The serenity that used to prevail in the country is gone, but at least the boredom dissipated and the danger breathed life into me. I slept less, drank more coffee, and was restless in general, but...
View ArticleThe FDLR Disarmament Double-game And The Covert Role of SADC
With apologies for intermittent posting over these months, a few musings on the current FDLR situation with demobilisation ceremonies happening in both Kivu provinces. On 30 May and 9 June,...
View ArticleIn his last speech Romeo Dallaire says: 1994 France intervention in Rwanda...
The speech was made on June 17, 2014 Honourable senators, may I first say a few words? I would like to use a reference from a book I have been referring to every now and again. It is a book called The...
View ArticleFrench Military Officer Ends two Decades of Silence over France’s...
Former French army officer, Guillaume Ancel, who was assigned to Operation Turquoise during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, has spoken out on his experience, disclosing how he was “advised” to...
View ArticleMu Rwanda twibuka ubwigenge bwapfubye
Na: Tom Ndahiro Imyaka 52 irashize, u Rwanda rugiye mu mubare w’Ibihugu byigenga. Kwigenga byo kugira ibendera bitari ukugira uburenganzira bw’Abanyagihugu. U Rwanda rwabonye ubwigenge mu buryo...
View ArticleRwanda: Living with Genocide Memories and its Perpetrators
When the genocide against Rwandan Tutsi began,Innocent Gakwerere was living in Kigali. A 24-year-old member of the Tutsi ethnic group, Innocent had grown up in a small village not far from the capital,...
View ArticleRwanda: Genocide against Tutsi weighs heavily on the mind of the Sun’s...
It’s hard to imagine the gruesome violence that once unfolded across the steep lush hills creating Rwanda’s picturesque landscape. But when I crossed the border into the country from Uganda, the...
View ArticleDRC’s sabotage against Rwanda and Tourists
Steep and sudden increase in Congo visa fees for Rwanda visitors and other tourists makes this African country an even more remote tourism destination. Following recent unsuccessful attempts to enter...
View ArticleElie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor on Indifference
Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends: Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up,...
View ArticleAs DRC foment woes, Catholic Sant’Egidio and UN’s Hervé Ladsous sponsor FDLR
On 25 June new DRC visa requirements came into force which greatly disturb small-scale cross-border movements with Rwanda – not just Rwanda, but no other Congolese border region is so densely...
View ArticleRwanda/DRC: The FDLR Question, Languid United Nations and Friends of the...
When all the Special Envoys met last June in Goma to assess the progress in the implementation of the Addis Framework Agreement, a good eighteen months had already past, with nothing more to show for...
View ArticleRwandans know better their needs and ways to achieve them–Paul Kagame
In a frank interview on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the genocide, President Kagame talked about its repercussions, regional politics and the end of his last term as leader in 2017. The Africa...
View ArticleCommunity-Based Sociotherapy and Rwanda’s Mediation of Memorisation
This year’s commemoration period in Rwanda marked the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi. Its motto was threefold: remember – unite – renew. The intention of Rwanda’s annual...
View ArticleIn Remembering Genocide, Never Forget =Never Again
As the period of remembrance of the Genocide in Rwanda draws to a close, I look back over a period of transformation. Over the last three months in communities from Kigali to Kansas, Senegal to Sweden,...
View ArticleSADC Converts to FDLR’s Spin Doctors while UN warns the genocidaire band plan...
Despite current SADC’s propaganda statements promoting a certain hidden agenda, the decision of Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) to lay down arms should be taken with a pinch of salt...
View ArticleIn 20 years Rwanda had an extraordinary recovery -Mushikiwabo
Twenty years ago, nearly a million members of the Tutsi minority were slaughtered by extremist members from the Hutu majority. Steve Inskeep talks to Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo....
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