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Thierry Cruvellier is Editor-in-Chief of Justiceinfo.net. For more than 20 years, he has been covering international and transitional justice for more than twenty years. He is an Op-ed contributor to The New York Times and the author of three books on Rwanda, Cambodia and Sierra Leone. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

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The invaders return - Poster for the redesigned ‘’The Invaders‘’ series. A map of the world is inlaid in the starry sky.
The invaders return
7 March 2025 by Thierry Cruvellier (Justice Info)
More and more countries – Russia, Israel, the United States, China, Azerbaijan, Venezuela – are publicly declaring their intent to conquer territories by force, or like Rwanda are doing it without admitting. The world order establ [...]
Is the death of the ICC imminent? And what does the future hold for international law? Two renowned experts, Mark Freeman and Mark Drumbl, examine these two topical issues. Illustration: Drumbl and Freeman by Benoît Peyrucq. Thinking about the death of the ICC and what comes next
7 February 2025 by Thierry Cruvellier (Justice Info)
Beyond the US sanctions, what led to the possible demise of the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Was the model and the supremacy of criminal law just misled from the start? And if the ICC falls off the cliff, what’s next? What’ [...]
In South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu presents the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to South African President Thabo Mbeki on 21 March 2003 in Pretoria. The two personalities smile and shake hands. A South African betrayal
28 January 2025 by Thierry Cruvellier (Justice Info)
On 20 January, 23 South Africans whose family members were murdered, forcibly disappeared or seriously injured under Apartheid have filed an unprecedented and damning application to the Constitutional Court. With the Foundation fo [...]
Military report supposedly behind the plot that led to the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Photo montage combining a portrait of Théoneste Bagosora at a hearing before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and a scan of the 1991 report of the ‘Bagosora Commission’. Justice Info publishes the report supposedly behind the genocide plot in Rwanda
5 November 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier (Justice Info)
For 30 years, only an extract of this report had been known. And in the eyes of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), this extract formed the basis of the criminal conspiracy that led to the geno [...]
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Lucy Gaynor answers Thierry Cruvellier's questions in an in-depth interview about the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Illustration: Gaynor's portrait.
4 November 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier (Justice Info)
How the UN tribunal for Rwanda shaped the genocide narrative On November 8, 1994, less than four months after the genocide in Rwanda, the United Nations created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Over the course of almost 30 years of trials, how has this court forged its [...]
Mark Freeman - Gangs and transitional justice. Illustration: portrait of Mark Freeman by Benoît Peyrucq.
20 September 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier (Justice Info)
Does transitional justice have anything to say on gang violence? In several parts of the world today, it is not war or dictatorship that are the main source of mass violence. It is mafias, gangs, cartels, bandits and pirates; and their modes of crime and violence span from extortion to kidnappi [...]
Gacaca courts in Rwanda. Photo: Denis Bikesha, former director of training, mobilisation and sensibilisation for the gacaca courts in Rwanda after 1994.
9 July 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier + Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
“You cannot transplant the gacaca court system” July 17th, 2024 will mark the 30th anniversary of the official end of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Denis Bikesha is a former director of training, mobilisation and sensibilisation for the gacaca courts in Rwanda after 199 [...]
Acquitted twice in Finland on charges of war crimes in Liberia, Gibril Massaquoi is claiming more than 800,000 euros in financial compensation. Photo: Massaquoi, wearing a dark suit, laughs during an interview with Justice Info.
28 June 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier (Justice Info)
Gibril Massaquoi tries for the jackpot Former Sierra Leonean rebel commander Gibril Massaquoi, twice acquitted by the Finnish courts, has filed a claim for compensation totalling around 815,000 euros for his lengthy detention. He has also taken legal action in Liberia, [...]
ICC arrest warrants against Israel and Hamas. Photo montage of 3 flags: Hamas, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Israel.
21 May 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier (Justice Info)
Israel/Palestine: the moment of truth On 20 May, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court asked the judges to issue arrest warrants for crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Israeli Prime Minister and Defence Minister alongside three major leade [...]
Portrait of Assumpta Mugiraneza, co-founder and director of the IRIBA Centre for Multimedia Heritage (Kigali, Rwanda).
26 April 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier + Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Assumpta Mugiraneza: “The policy of memory in Rwanda must be reinvented, renegotiated” Assumpta Mugiraneza, 57, is the co-founder and director of the IRIBA Center for Multimedia Heritage in Kigali. With rare freedom of speech, she recounts the construction of memory after the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 [...]
A man looks at the names of genocide victims at the Mount Rebero memorial in Kigali.
18 April 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier + Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
At Rebero, political remembrance of the genocide April 13 saw the official closing ceremony for the 30th commemoration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. The ceremony took place on Mount Rebero, overlooking the capital Kigali -- the same place where the first commemoration took pl [...]
In memory of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, 30 years on. Photo: At the end of the commemorations, an elder leaves the Mayunzwe memorial and walks down the hill towards the village.
9 April 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier (special envoy in Mayunzwe, Rwanda)
Mayunzwe remembers the "Calvary" of the Tutsis On April 7, all Rwandans commemorated 30 years since the 1994 genocide. While an official ceremony was held in the capital Kigali, gatherings were also organized on hillsides across the country. In Mayunzwe, central Rwanda, villag [...]
Gibril Massaquoi was acquitted on appeal following a second trial in Finland.
2 February 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier (Justice Info)
Massaquoi affair: epilogue to a fiasco On January 31, the Turku Court of Appeal in Finland confirmed the acquittal of Gibril Massaquoi on all charges. The former Sierra Leonean rebel commander was accused of multiple crimes committed in Liberia between 1999 and 2003. A [...]
Pro-Palestinian demonstration outside UN headquarters in New York.
18 December 2023 by Thierry Cruvellier (special correspondent in New York )
International Criminal Court at the heart of world disorder Member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) met in plenary session from December 4 to 14, as they do annually. Palestine featured in many of the debates on the sidelines of this assembly in New York. It came as the Cou [...]
The Lundin trial could worry multinationals - Bubbles in an oil puddle in Sudan.
5 September 2023 by Thierry Cruvellier
Lundin trial: "a strong signal to business" Two top executives of a Western oil company are going on trial for complicity in war crimes. The start of the Lundin trial in Sweden on September 5 moves criminal responsibility for bosses of multinationals "from a theoretical rea [...]
Kabuga trial - Félicien Kabuga, in a wheelchair, seems to be running away from a radio displaying the date of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis of Rwanda. Banknotes fly around him.
8 June 2023 by Thierry Cruvellier
Kabuga: heading for a palliative trial? According to his judges, Félicien Kabuga can be tried but not convicted. On June 6, a UN tribunal ruled that the Rwandan, aged 88 (or 90, according to him), is no longer fit to stand trial. But instead of suspending the case, the [...]
Tensions between South Africa and the ICC - Vladimir Putin speaks in Cyril Ramaphosa's ear
28 April 2023 by Thierry Cruvellier
Why South Africa said it was leaving the ICC, then flip-flopped In less than 24 hours, the South African authorities announced their intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) before declaring it a misunderstanding. South Africa is due to receive Vladimir Putin in August [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) in Ukraine - War crimes arrest warrants for Ukrainian children forcibly displaced to Russia.
14 March 2023 by Thierry Cruvellier
Forced transfer of children and destruction of civilian infrastructure: what the ICC is up to in Ukraine, according to the New York Times The leading US daily revealed on 13 March that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is about to seek arrest warrants for Russian officials for war crimes committed in Ukraine. The first two cases concern the ab [...]
Gibril Massaquoi: Finnish trial on appeal in Liberia
27 January 2023 by Thierry Cruvellier
Massaquoi case: Finnish court of appeal arrives in Liberia Finnish judges, prosecutors and lawyers are expected to arrive in the Liberian capital on 31 January. They are to stay for two months for the appeal trial of the former Sierra Leonean rebel commander, Gibril Massaquoi. Massaquoi w [...]
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