Dallaire recalls horrors of Rwanda

By Trevor Wilhelm, THE WINDSOR STAR Post-traumatic stress, suicide attempts and alcohol abuse — even Canada’s most famous soldier was not immune.

Rwanda genocide: The Gisimba orphanage that saved 400

By Megha Mohan–April 8th, 2011 On BBC Miles from the Rwandan capital Kigali’s centre, tucked between bustling Senegalese and Ghanaian eateries, street butchers, pavement markets and the odd informal cinema, the Gisimba orphanage is not exactly easy to find.

Information technology super-charging Rwanda’s economy, Country aspires to become a regional high-tech hub

By Masimba Tafirenyika–From Africa Renewal, April 2011, page 18 A luxury commuter bus pulls up by the kerb to pick up passengers. A young woman quickly jumps in, retrieves a smart card from her wallet and swipes it against a machine next to the driver. A buzzer approves the swipe and the woman takes a [...]

Barsamian’s Art Exhibit: 20 Years of Searching for Answers

By Betty Apigian Kessel –April 13, 2011 DETROIT — The reasons were many and varied for attending the Thursday, March 31, opening of what Dallas-based artist Robert Barsamian called “20 Years- Searching for the Answer,” sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills and Armenian benefactors in a collaboration with the [...]

UN Official Helps Karegyeya Recruit Mercenary Force

Kigali, Feb 07, 2011 (The New Times/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) Rwandan fugitive, Patrick Karegyeya, is reported to be raising an armed force purportedly to help the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG), with funding from the United Nations (UN).

Kayumba, Karegyeya have formed armed group-CEPGL

By James Karuhanga KIGALI – Regional security chiefs, representing the Economic Community of Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL), have disclosed that Rwandan fugitives, Kayumba Nyamwasa and Patrick Karegyeya, have formed a new armed group based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with the aim of destabilizing the region.

Rusesabagina As Guilty As the Terrorists And Fugitives He Pleads for

Pan Butamire–1 April 2011 In 1954 when Rupfure Thomas and Nyirampara Keziya were blessed with the birth of a bouncing baby boy in their remote Nkomero home of south-western Rwanda, in the wildest of their imaginations they had no inkling that this bundle of joy would one day shake the hand of the most powerful [...]

‘Less Than Human’: The Psychology Of Cruelty

Filed by KOSU News in Art & Life. April 1, 2011 During the Holocaust, Nazis referred to Jews as rats. Hutus involved in the Rwanda genocide called Tutsis cockroaches. Slave owners throughout history considered slaves subhuman animals. In Less Than Human, David Livingstone Smith argues that it’s important to define and describe dehumanization, because it’s [...]

Strange friends: Victoire Ingabire and FDLR

The defendant former mayor from Rwanda was also politically active in his German exile. Even the president of the Hutu militia FDLR has supported him.

The Rising Revisionism of the Tutsi Genocide in Europe, US and Canada

By Felix M. NDAHINDA The Hague Peace Palace – premises of the International Court of Justice among other institutions – hosted on 26th April 2008 a controversial event under the catchy title:   “Conference on Peace and Development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa”. The gathering featured Mr “Hotel Rwanda” Paul Rusesabagina who was made [...]