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.
NTABAKUZE'S DEFENCE QUESTION THE CREDIBILITY OF A PROSECUTION WITNESS
Arusha, September 11, 2003 (FH) – Defence counsel for the former commander of Kanombe para-commando battalion in Kigali, Major Aloys Ntabakuze, on Thursday questioned the credibility of a prosecution witness at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Ntabakuze's co-counsel, André Tremblay from Canada, raised doubts when cross-examining a witness with the pseudonym “XAI”, so-called […]
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