Abashyizeho urubuga ‘Umuhanuzi’ wo kwigisha urwango, barikorera cyangwa bakorera Kiliziya ibayobora?

Nyuma yo gusoma ibyandikwa n’abapadiri Fortunatus Rudakemwa na mugenzi we, ndetse n’uburyo bakoresha izina rya Yezu ngo bacengeze uburozi bw’urwango n’ingengabitekerezo ya jenoside byabaye ngombwa ko hibazwa uwo bakorera.

World needs to get proactive on genocide, says museum executive

By Dan Pine Thursday, April 28, 2011

To Mike Abramowitz, the Shoah was one shoah too many.

That’s why the former Washington Post reporter now heads the Committee on Conscience, established by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. His mission: alert the world to emerging crimes against humanity, wherever they may take place.

FIRST-PERSON (Jacob Alexander): Amazed by Rwanda’s stories of healing

By Jacob Alexander–Apr 28, 2011
KIGALI, Rwanda (BP)–From the small window of the Kenya Airways jet, I looked down on the beautiful green mountains of Rwanda as we slowly made our descent to the Kigali airport, where 17 years ago an airplane carrying Rwanda’s president was shot down, sparking one of the most evil acts of humanity in my lifetime.

Sunshine And Shadow In Rwanda’s Rural Housing Programme

By Barrie Terreblanche, Inter Press Service–Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The gleam of new corrugated iron sheets shimmers through the blue-green haze that veils Rwanda’s rural valleys and hillsides. It is a visible sign of Rwanda’s metamorphosis from a nation devastated by genocide seventeen years ago to the fastest modernising state on the continent.

Rwandan on trial in Kansas over 1994 genocide

By Joe Stumpe (AFP)

WICHITA, Kansas — An octogenarian Rwandan went on trial in Kansas Tuesday, accused of lying about his role in the 1994 genocide in his home country to secure US citizenship.

Lazare Kobagaya, 84, a diminutive man with a graying mustache, walked with a cane into the Wichita courthouse accompanied by a half-dozen family members.

A lawyer who was arrested last year in Rwanda has been barred from working at the UN’s Rwanda tribunal, based in Arusha

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) removed Peter Erlinder as the defense counsel for a Rwandan genocide convict. The US lawyer was sanctioned because he failed to show up at a hearing of his client, Major Aloys Ntabakuze, last month.

Rwanda: Youth in the U.S. Vow to Fight the Genocide Ideology

Ivan R. Mugisha–28 April 2011

Rwandan youth in the U.S vowed to resist negative ideologies which may come from their lecturers and relatives and instead focus on contributing to the development of their nation.

They made the resolve during an event organised last week in Indianapolis, Indiana, to mark the 17th commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsis.

Susan Thomson’s perceived doom for Rwanda is an illusion

By Ngabo Michael

Susan Thomson has consistently written very damaging articles on Rwanda in the name of ‘constructive criticism’. She always tries to create a misleading impression that she is ‘defending’ Rwandans from the perceived repressive Government, when instead she is attempting to poison unsuspecting minds against Rwanda. She has condemned Government reconciliation policies since their inception in late 1990s and even her doctoral thesis was directed towards that goal.

History of Armenian genocide should be taught despite government denial

By Rohan Viswanathan–April 24, 2011

All throughout my elementary and middle school years, I was educated on the numerous genocides of the 20th century: the Holocaust, Rwanda, Darfur. I was told to look at these events as the worst acts of inhumanity ever committed; however, these events all took place after the Armenian genocide.

Kansas man accused in Rwandan genocide faces trial

By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press – Tue Apr 26, 2011

WICHITA, Kan. – An 84-year-old immigrant accused of participating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide went on trial Tuesday in Kansas in an immigration case that the Justice Department says is the first of its kind in the U.S.