Hirondelle News
18 years of archives, 11'000 reports on justice in Rwanda
The Hirondelle News Agency, based in Arusha, Tanzania, reported on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 1997 and the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2010. In June 2015, Hirondelle News handed over to JusticeInfo.net. The agency had more than 1,700 subscribers, including international and local media organizations especially in Rwanda and Tanzania, news agencies, universities, NGOs and individuals. Hirondelle News produced close to 11,000 dispatches, thus constituting one of the most important archives for these institutions, in four languages: English, French, Kiswahili and Kinyarwanda.
03.04.07 - RWANDA/GENOCIDE - ONE TENTH OF THE RWANDAN POPULATION ACCUSED OF GENOCIDE
KIGALI, 3 April 2007 (FH) – Rwanda, which prepares itself to commemorate on Sunday the 13th anniversary of the genocide, counts 818,564 suspects of participation in massacres, one tenth of its population of ca. 8 millions of persons as we learned on Tuesday by an official source. Perpetrated by Hutu extremists, the genocide caused almost […]
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