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.
WITNESSES TELL OF RAPE ORDEALS
Arusha, March 20, 2001(FH) - Former Rwandan mayor Laurent Semanza encouraged militia to rape Tutsi women during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, witnesses told the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday. Four witnesses who testified on Monday and Tuesday said that soldiers and militia who raped women in Bicumbi area, central Rwanda, in April […]
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