The Apple Does Not Fall Far From the Tree: Genocide Ideology as Family Inheritance

By: Tom Ndahiro

Genocide ideology as a thread linking families weaves a complex web. In 1973, Juvenal Habyarimana appointed one Dominique Mbonyumutwa in an honorary position as Chancellor of National Orders of service. Mbonyumutwa held this position for thirteen years, up until his death in August of 1986. In that period, he used it to award the highest honours to members of the extremist Parmehutu party.

Open letter to Hon. Gilles Foret

Re: Jambo Asbl appearance as before the Belgian Federal Parliament.

As a long time researcher in genocide ideology, and genocide denial in particular, I write to you, to express my thanks, gratitude, and admiration for your decency, your humanity in tabling the bill to outlaw the denial of genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Belgo-Rwandans in Belgian Parliament to Defend Crimes of Their Fathers

By: Tom Ndahiro

The Belgian Federal Parliament is to invite a group of neo-Nazis to hear their representations, ahead of a parliamentary debate on a bill to make genocide denial a criminal offence. Of course, no such invitation has been issued by the Belgian Parliament, but seen with a Rwandan context, what the parliament is actually doing, is little short of that.

8th February, A Footnote In History That Could Have Been So Much More

By: Tom Ndahiro

Each year, and for all years, Rwanda marks important dates of significance in the struggle for the liberation of the nation. One date however passes unnoticed by most, perhaps because its greatest importance lies in what could have been, rather than in what did happen, important though as that was.

Quand Filip Reyntjens Pervertit l’Histoire du Génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda

Professeur émérite à l’université d’Anvers, le juriste belge Filip Reyntjens a publié en avril 2017 un « Que sais-je ? » sur le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda. Tout en reconnaissant le génocide, ce livre en propose une vision si déformée qu’elle dénature le sens de cet événement et finit par emprunter aux thèmes habituels du négationnisme : minoration de l’intention génocidaire des extrémistes hutu, attribution au Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR) d’une responsabilité dans le génocide, mise en balance systématique des agissements des auteurs du génocide et de ceux du FPR.