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.
MILITARY ACTION WAS MERGED TO CIVIL DEFENCE SAYS WITNESS
Arusha, September 18, 2002 (FH) - The first witness in the trial of four Rwandan military officers before the Tribunal, historian and human rights activist Alison Des Forges, told the Tribunal that military officers merged civil defence initiatives with military action to fight the "enemy". Des Forges is testifying for the third week as an […]
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