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.
MEDIA ON TRIAL AT RWANDA GENOCIDE TRIBUNALBy Julia Crawford
Arusha, November 22nd – The speed and horror with which the 1994 genocide unfurled in Rwanda has still not been fully explained. Some 800, 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in only 100 days, mostly at the hands of other civilians wielding machetes and traditional weapons.
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