The dismissive statement issued by Katrina Swett, the president of the Foundation, in regard to demands by many of the genocide survivors who lived the hell that was the Hôtel des Mille Collines in 1994 is not only unfortunate, but puts the credibility of the Lantos Foundation in a precarious situation. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Holocaust Denial’
Lantos Foundation – the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same
Posted: November 15, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Genocide Denial, Paul Rusesabagina, Hutu, 1994, Interahamwe, United States of America, Holocaust Denial, Hotel Rwanda, Lantos Foundation
Descendant of a Holocaust Survivor Joins Promoters of Tutsi Genocide Denial
Posted: November 15, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Genocide Denial, Holocaust Denial, Hotel Rwanda, Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, Interahamwe, Paul Rusesabagina, Survivors, Tutsi Genocide, United States of America
By Ndahiro Tom
Sometimes songs of praise go to false characters. Because of the movie ‘Hotel Rwanda’ Paul Rusesabagina was made a Hollywood star and a conqueror of hearts. (more…)
Dealing with Hate Propaganda: the similarities between Nazi and Interahamwe
Posted: November 3, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Filip Reyntjens, Genocide 1994, Holocaust Denial, Hutu, Interahamwe, Paul Rusesabagina, Peter Erlinder, RTLM, Rwanda, Tutsi Genocide, Victoire Ingabire
Discrimination and its promotion through hate propaganda disturb peace and can pave the way to massive human rights violations such as genocide. (more…)
Tutsi genocide: Nyange Church Victims Honoured
Posted: April 18, 2011 in NewsTags: 1994, Athanase Seromba, Catholic Church, genocide, Genocide Denial, Holocaust Denial, ICTR, Interahamwe, Rwanda
Sam Nkurunziza–17 April 2011
Ngororero — Victims of the infamous Nyange massacres during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi were yesterday honoured at an emotional function held in Ngororero District. (more…)
Genocide denial and the case of Rwanda
Posted: April 16, 2011 in Genocide DenialTags: Andrew Mathis, Ann Garrison, Democratic republic of Congo, Genocide Denial, Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Ingabire Victoire, Rwanda, Tutsi
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. (more…)
Pierre Péan: Europe Allows Genocide Denial in the age of ‘Never Again’
Posted: April 12, 2011 in Genocide DenialTags: Charles Ndereyehe, Filip Reyntjens, France, Genocide Denial, Hassan Ngeze, Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Hutu, Interahamwe, Kangura, Pierre Péan, Rwanda, SOS Racism, Stephen W. Smith, Tutsi, United Nations, Victoire Ingabire
Underestimating the Magnitude of International Crime: Implications of Genocidal Behavior for the Discipline of Criminology
Posted: January 31, 2011 in Genocide DenialTags: 1994, African Rights, Armenian Genocide, Catholic Church, Criminology, Failure, Genocide 1994, Genocide Denial, George Yacoubian, Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Hovanissian, Hutu, injustice, Injustice studies, Journal of Criminal Justice, Justice Quarterly, Laws, Tutsi Genocide, United Nations
By George S. Yacoubian Jr.
Injustice Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1997
Abstract
The 20th century has witnessed the evolution of perhaps the most contemptible violation of state-perpetrated, international criminal law- genocide. Genocidal behavior however, has been routinely ignored in literature devoted to the discipline of criminology. (more…)
New Humanitarianism with Old Problems: The Forgotten Lesson of Rwanda
Posted: January 29, 2011 in Evidence MaterialTags: 1994, African Rights, Armenian Genocide, Bagosora, Belgium, Catholic Church, Death, France, French, Genocidaires, Genocide convention, Holocaust Denial, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarianism, Hutu, Interahamwe, Madalina Elena Nan, Nazi Germany, RTLM, Rwanda Genocide, United Nations, United States of America
By Madalina Elena Nan–October 4, 2010
“The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.” (more…)
The Seven Stages of the Rwandan Genocide
Posted: January 29, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Armenian Genocide, Bagosora, Belgium, Catholic Church, Extermination, France, genocide, Genocide 1994, Goods, Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Hutu, Interahamwe, Jean Mukimbiri, Jean-Michel Lecomte, Jewish, Mass, RTLM, Rwanda, Seven, Stages, Tutsi, UNHCR, United Nations, Victims
By Jean Mukimbiri
Abstract
Drawing upon a book by J.M. Lecomte on the genocide of the Jews by the Nazi Germans, the author examines the seven stages in the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. These stages, which do not necessarily follow one another in time but may overlap, can be classified in the following way: (i) definition of the target group on the basis of some criteria; (ii) registration of the victims; (iii) designation or outward identification of the victims; (iv) restriction and confiscation of goods; (v) exclusion from professions, working activities and means of transportation, among other things; (vi) systematic isolation; (vii) mass extermination. (more…)
Encountering Holocaust Denial
Posted: January 26, 2011 in Genocide DenialTags: Armenian Genocide, Bradley Smith, Death, Encountering, France, genocide, Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Hutu, Interahamwe, Jewish, Lin Collette, Religious Studies, revisionism, Rwanda, September 1994, SS Guards, The Public Eye, United Nations
“The SS guards took pleasure in telling us that we had no chance of coming out alive, a point they emphasized with particular relish by insisting that after the war the rest of the world would not believe what happened.” (more…)