The Guardian’s Anti-Semitic Explanation For Shalit Deal

Over the years, we’ve covered some vicious and despicable pieces in the media, many of them published in The Guardian. But amongst the many commentaries and analyses of the Gilad Shalit prisoner deal, one by Deborah Orr in The Guardian’s print edition really plumbs the depths.

Keith Harmon Snow: A virulent Tutsi and Jews hater

By Tom Ndahiro Genocide deniers have the same discourse.

History of Armenian genocide should be taught despite government denial

By Rohan Viswanathan–April 24, 2011 All throughout my elementary and middle school years, I was educated on the numerous genocides of the 20th century: the Holocaust, Rwanda, Darfur. I was told to look at these events as the worst acts of inhumanity ever committed; however, these events all took place after the Armenian genocide.

Genocide denial and the case of Rwanda

By Andrew Mathis, Progressive Geopolitics Examiner–April 15th, 2011 Today’s San Francisco Bay View featured an interview with Peter Erlinder, who is the defense attorney for Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, who is herself chair of the Unified Democratic Forces, a coalition of Rwandan citizens working since 2006 to challenge the régime of Paul Kagame.

Susan Thomson’s Perceived Doom for Country is an Illusion

By Ngabo Michael–15 April 2011 Susan Thomson has consistently written very damaging articles on Rwanda in the name of ‘constructive criticism’. She always tries to create a misleading impression that she is ‘defending’ Rwandans from the perceived repressive Government, when instead she is attempting to poison unsuspecting minds against Rwanda.

Rwandans gather on Parliament Hill to mark genocide anniversary

By Eddie Rwema–Apr 14, 2011 More than 200 Rwandan genocide survivors gathered on Parliament Hill on April 7 to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the brutal killing of more than one million men, women and children as a result of the 1994 genocide orchestrated against Tutsis in Rwanda.

The bookseller of Kigali

By Dominique Elshout 14 April 2011 Ask bookseller and storyteller Chiel Lijdsman a question and he’ll fire away. As he puts it: “My shoes have been in Kigali since 1987. In Mozambique I was shelled out of the country. I cleared off to Rwanda, only to find that the preparations for the genocide had just [...]

Of Broken Chains And Spirit That Refuses to Die

Joseph Rwagatare–12 April 2011 Opinion Ousmane Sembene, the Senegalese writer and film maker, made a profound definition of a slave. He wrote that it is not the person who is forcibly put in chains and kept in a cage that is the real slave, but the one who willingly accepts the chains spiritually (in the [...]

Pierre Péan: Europe Allows Genocide Denial in the age of ‘Never Again’

By Tom Ndahiro–April 12 2011 In April 1998, over 150 of the world’s most respected thinkers, scholars and authors signed a petition affirming that denial of genocide is a form of aggression that perpetuates genocide itself.[1]

Revising genocide’s truth, in God’s name

By Tom Ndahiro One of the world’s great under appreciated scandals is the role of Catholic Church officials in the Rwandan genocide of 1994, its bloody aftermath in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the continuing campaign to popularize a revisionist history of the genocide that would advance the malign agenda of those who actively [...]