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.
WITNESS SAYS BAGILISHEMA INCITED KILLING OF TUTSIS
Arusha, January 24, 2000 (FH) - Former Rwandan mayor Ignace Bagilishema incited the Hutu population to kill Tutsis, a prosecution witness on Monday told the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). A 47-year-old Tutsi woman, dubbed Witness B to protect her identity, said that on April 13th, 1994, she had seen and heard Bagilishema telling […]
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