American Legislators and Genocide Deniers: Is Ignorance a Defence?

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By: Tom Ndahiro

An American Congressional representative from Oregon takes it upon herself to lend weight to claims that Rwanda is an oppressive state. Most Rwandans who know next to nothing about her state, a little more than the Congresswoman does about Rwanda, are bemused by the bizarre intervention, which seems to come out of the blue. Continue reading

Go to court, or keep quiet

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By: Tom Ndahiro

Ever since the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) halted the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi its planners, its perpetrators, their friends and supporters continue to attempt to rewrite history, in an effort to deny their “crime of crimes”. The recurring theme for them is the shooting down of the Presidential aeroplane, as “the trigger to genocide”. Continue reading