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July 1994 Kigali: Then Rwandan vice-president Paul Kagame, the Tutsi-led RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) commander.         (Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images)
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Exclusive: Top-secret testimonies implicate Rwanda’s president in war crimes

Explosive witness testimony from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda implicates Paul Kagame and the RPF in mass killings before, during and after the 1994 genocide.

Demonising’s danger: The belongings of the victims of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide form part of the Nyamata Genocide Memorial in Kigali. (Jacques Nkinzingabo/AFP)

World has failed to learn from Rwanda’s genocide

And yet, too often we are confronted with the shameful reality that the world has not learned the lessons of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

On this terrible anniversary, we stand in solidarity with the victims, their families and the survivors of the genocide in their sorrow. (Reuters/Finbarr O’Reilly)

Rwanda: 25 years after genocide, politics of demonisation as dangerous as ever

In the 25 years since the genocide, the world has witnessed countless crimes fuelled by the same politics of demonisation and tactics of exclusion

On this terrible anniversary, we stand in solidarity with the victims, their families and the survivors of the genocide in their sorrow. (Reuters/Finbarr O’Reilly)

Swede jailed for life over Rwanda genocide

Theodore Tabaro, 49, was sentenced by the Stockholm district court for ‘genocide’ after he was convicted of murder, attempted murder, and kidnappings

Inquiry shows Kagame’s aides innocent of plane attack

A French report has cleared Paul Kagame’s aides of a plane attack that killed French nationals and was one of the catalysts of the Rwandan genocide.

Remains of Rwandan genocide victims ‘used for witchcraft’

A report has found that the remains of genocide victims buried in mass graves in Uganda have been exhumed to be used in witchcraft.

French police arrest Rwandan genocide suspect

French police have arrested a former officer in the Rwandan army, Marcel Bivugabagabo, accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide, an association of legal plaintiffs said on…

Report done on France’s alleged role in genocide

A special Rwandan commission handed over on Friday a 500-page report on France’s alleged role in the country’s 1994 genocide, the commission’s president said. Paris has already…

Rwanda asks France to extradite genocide suspect

Rwanda called on France on Friday to extradite a Rwandan wanted for his alleged role in the country’s 1994 genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Dominique…