‘I should not be prejudged on the basis of other people’-KAGAME

By Peter Nyanzi

Rwandan President Paul Kagame was in Kampala as chief guest at the Young Achievers Awards ceremony on Dec.11 and ended his visit with a media dialogue attended by The Independent’s Peter Nyanzi. Excerpts of the exchange follow.

In Rwanda, A Building Project Meant To Raise Women Up

In Rwanda, an innovative new education center hopes to direct economic opportunities to women in hopes of elevating the rest of the community.

United States Gov. hails life sentences for ex-Rwandan leaders

By SAPA-AFP

The United States said Tuesday that the UN-backed tribunal for Rwanda took a big step to providing justice for Rwandans when it jailed for life two former heads of the ex-ruling party.

Foreign policy isn’t about good and evil

By Gareth Evans

Václav Havel, the Czech playwright and dissident turned president, and Kim Jong Il, the North Korean despot, might have lived on different planets, for all their common commitment to human dignity, rights, and democracy.

Two Cultures, Two Genocides, One Story

By Bernard Starr

If you saw David Gewirtzman and Jacqueline Murekatete standing together it would be hard to imagine that they had anything in common.

Evode Uwizeyimana ngo Abatutsi bakora politiki irimo ubwenge n’ubugome, Abahutu bagakora irimo ubuhubutsi n’uburakare

Na: Tom Ndahiro

Gushyira ukuri ahagaragara urwanya aba Neo-Interahamwe ntako bisa. Abo uvuze ukuri kurabarya bagaceceka bakazaba bashakira ahandi.

Rwanda’s prosecution to file Genocide charges against former UN employee

By James Karuhanga

Prosecutors will file Genocide charges against Callixte Mbarushimana, leader of the FDLR (Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda) militia, even though he was released last week by The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC).

Rwandan Tutsi genocide: Ex-UN employee vowed to “eliminate them all”

By RFI

A former Hutu militia leader employed by the United Nations is facing fresh allegations over his role in the 1994 genocide after the International Criminal Court in The Hague released him on December 23 saying there was insufficient evidence to convict him.

Genocide is not just another word

By Klaas den Tek

A fierce row has broken out between Ankara and Paris following a French decision to adopt a law criminalising the denial of the Armenian genocide by the Turks (1915- 1916).

Genocide denial in mined minds and hearts

By Tom Ndahiro

On April 8, 2004, as part of the 10^th commemoration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, the President of the International Crisis Group (ICG) Gareth Evans and Stephen Ellis, ICG’s Africa Program Director published an article with a title:  ‘The Rwandan Genocide: Memory Is Not Enough’[1]