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.
WE KILLED THE "COCKROACHES" AND BURNED THEM WITH PETROL, SAYS WITNESS
Arusha, November 2nd, 2000 (FH) - Former Rwandan military leader Samuel Imanishimwe angrily stripped a gendarme of his uniform for protecting Tutsi refugees in a church complex in 1994, a witness told the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday. The eleventh prosecution witness, dubbed "LAM" to protect his identity, told the court that […]
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