Rwanda Genocide
latest news & developmentsRwanda sanctions fugitives in SA
The designated 25 individuals have allegedly orchestrated attacks on Rwandan soil, inciting Rwandans to commit and finance acts of terrorism
Rwanda’s reckoning: A father’s reflections on memory, pain and the architecture of hope
A father’s thoughts as he visits the memorial to the 1994 genocide with his family
How Rwanda’s annual genocide commemoration fans the flame of ethnicity
In 2014, the genocide was officially renamed from the Rwandan genocide to ‘the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi’
Scarcity and the threat of another ‘final solution’
Russia’s botched war of neo-colonial conquest in Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin’s mendacious justifications for it, bear the closest resemblance in our age to Hitler’s campaign for…
Rwandan genocide fugitive appears in Cape Town court
Fulgence, who was locally known as Donatien Nibashumba, faces five charges including fraud and contravening the immigration and refugee acts
One of last four Rwanda genocide fugitives arrested in South Africa
Fulgence Kayishema, one of four remaining fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has been arrested in South Africa, United Nations investigators said on…
South Africa not co-operating in arrest of genocide suspect — UN court
Since 2010, the tribunal has handled outstanding and ongoing cases from the former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
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.
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
Debating media’s role in driving Rwanda’s genocide
Although many years have passed, the Rwandan genocide still has much to teach us about the centrality of media in cases of state violence
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
The intolerable loss of dignity
Obliterating being human is beyond our comprehension and so we invoke evil and dignity – but the wound is indelible
‘My neighbour murdered nearly all of my family, but now we are friends’
Thanks to a pioneering project survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide now live side by side in ‘reconciliation villages’.
Rwanda’s essential oils offer big profits from little land
Essential oils are increasingly in demand in richer countries for use in cosmetics, food and pharmaceuticals.
Why US universities should cut links with Rwanda
The US should stop backing authoritarian regimes such as Rwanda’s through institutional support that helps propagate tyranny.