Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide

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Twenty-five years ago, between April and July 1994, Tutsis in Rwanda were victims of genocide. JusticeInfo joins the commemorations by publishing over the coming weeks numerous articles, interviews, maps and reports.
Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide
Judges urge France to take acquitted Rwandan
10 May 2019 by Ephrem Rugiririza
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda received cooperation from States to arrest the 73 people it tried, but when it closed in December 2015, it did not find a host country for some of the people who had been acquitted or [...]
How Rwandans are writing about the genocide
29 April 2019 by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro and Ephrem Rugiririza
Despite a very rich oral culture, Rwanda was virtually absent from the modern African literary and cinema scene before 1994. Several authors and a rare handful of filmmakers have made inroads, but Rwandan production inspired by th [...]
Rwanda: at the heart of the memory
23 April 2019 by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
The Kigali Memorial in Gisozi, where more than 250,000 victims are buried, is at the heart of the memory of the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis in 1994 and of a question it raises: how to reconcile memory with policies of [...]
Rwanda: The most judged genocide in history
4 April 2019 by Thierry Cruvellier and Ephrem Rugiririza, Justiceinfo.net
Never before in the history of international justice has a mass crime been judged so much or in so many places as the 1994 genocide in Rwanda against the Tutsis. Rwanda set up more than 12,000 courts to ensure that no one would es [...]
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3 April 2019 by Thierry Cruvellier
Philip Gourevitch: living in Rwanda with the genocide (somewhat) behind - Part 1 JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Philip Gourevitch Journalist at The New Yorker and author For the first time Rwandans can look at being in Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide with the genocide somewhat behind them, says jo [...]
3 April 2019 by Thierry Cruvellier
Philip Gourevitch: “The aftermath of genocide is much harder to understand and therefore to write about” - Part 2 JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Philip Gourevitch Journalist at The New Yorker and author Journalist and writer Philip Gourevitch has kept going back to Rwanda for 24 years. In this second part of an interview with Justiceinfo [...]
25 March 2019 by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Rwanda: Suspect transfers signal new stage in genocide trials On March 19, a Rwandan genocide suspect was arrested in the Netherlands. It is likely that he will be extradited to Rwanda for trial. Since the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) first transferred an accused person [...]
17 March 2019 by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Rwandan reparations fund breaks ground but is still not enough, say victims Twenty-five years ago, between April and July 1994, Tutsis in Rwanda were victims of genocide. JusticeInfo joins the commemorations by publishing over the coming weeks numerous articles, interviews, maps and reports. The first tel [...]