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.
COLLECTIVE HYSTERIA CONTRIBUTED TO RWANDAN TRAGEDY SAYS WITNESS
Arusha, July 15, 2002 (FH) - A situation of collective madness or collective hysteria contributed to the events in Rwanda in 1994, an expert witness dealing with ethno-psychiatry Lucien Hounkpatin, on Monday told the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Hounkpatin, of Benin and France on Monday started his testimony in the defence of one […]
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