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 ‘Interahamwe’
Lantos Foundation – the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same
Posted: November 15, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: 1994, Genocide Denial, Holocaust Denial, Hotel Rwanda, Hutu, Interahamwe, Lantos Foundation, Paul Rusesabagina, United States of America
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…)
Confessions of former FDLR Militia, the genocide was planned
Posted: October 26, 2011 in NewsTags: combatants, FDLR, genocide, Interahamwe, Militia, Rwanda
A sevenday sensitisation workshop on various government development programmes targeting ex-militias in Karongi District, ended with a call on participants to contribute towards national development. (more…)
Security Council welcomes arrest of fugitives sought for crimes in the Balkans, Rwanda
Posted: May 30, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: 1994, Bosnia, genocide, Interahamwe, Mladic, Munyagishari, Rwanda, UN Security Council
May 27, 2011
The Security Council today welcomed the arrests this week of two fugitives wanted by the United Nations tribunals set up to try those responsible for the worst crimes committed during the Balkans conflicts of the 1990s and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. (more…)
United Nations Envoy Welcomes Start of FDLR Leaders’ Trial
Posted: May 6, 2011 in NewsTags: 1994, Armenian Genocide, FDLR, Genocide Denial, Interahamwe, Margot Wallström, Rwanda, Trial, Tutsi Genocide, United Nations, United States of America
James Karuhanga– May 6, 2011
Kigali — A top UN official has welcomed the trial, of two leaders of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) militia that kicked off Wednesday in a German court. (more…)
How to remember
Posted: May 2, 2011 in CommentTags: Darfur, genocide, Holocaust, Interahamwe, Nazis, Remembrance, Rwanda
Yom Hashoah begins at sundown May 1. We consider it our duty to not just remember those so savagely deprived of life and liberty in the Shoah, but also never to forget the horror of a modern nation creating factories of death with the same cool precision it applied to building automobile factories. We want to make that collective memory the foundation for preventing future genocides. (more…)
A lawyer who was arrested last year in Rwanda has been barred from working at the UN’s Rwanda tribunal, based in Arusha
Posted: April 28, 2011 in NewsTags: 1994, Appeals Chamber, Armenian Genocide, Convict, Defence counsel, Holocaust, ICTR, Interahamwe, Peter Erlinder, United Nations
Appeals judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) removed Peter Erlinder as the defense counsel for a Rwandan genocide convict. The US lawyer was sanctioned because he failed to show up at a hearing of his client, Major Aloys Ntabakuze, last month. (more…)
Rwandan on trial in Kansas over 1994 genocide
Posted: April 28, 2011 in NewsTags: Armenian Genocide, Genocidaires, Genocide 1994, Holocaust, ICTR, Interahamwe, Rwanda, United Nations, United States of America
By Joe Stumpe (AFP)
WICHITA, Kansas — An octogenarian Rwandan went on trial in Kansas Tuesday, accused of lying about his role in the 1994 genocide in his home country to secure US citizenship. (more…)
Rwanda – from obsession to forgiveness
Posted: May 2, 2011 in CommentTags: Church, genocide, Hutu, Interahamwe, Rwanda, UN Security Council
FLORENCE RADULL
Correspondent
Seventeen years ago this month the systematic and calculated massacre of an estimated one million Tutsi’s and moderate Hutu’s took place in Rwanda, in a matter of only 100 days. (more…)