Lantos Foundation – the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same

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.

Dealing with Hate Propaganda: the similarities between Nazi and Interahamwe

Discrimination and its promotion through hate propaganda disturb peace and can pave the way to massive human rights violations such as genocide.

In 1994 “There were bodies in every street in Rwanda”

At four years old, Yannick Tona saw people being hacked to death with machetes, women raped in the streets, and was hunted by people trying to kill him.

Are Colleges and Universities in North America Unwittingly Providing a Platform to a Tutsi Genocide Revisionist?

Since 2004 in the United States and in Canada, Paul Rusesabagina, the man upon whom Don Cheadle’s character in Hotel Rwanda is based, has been celebrated as the Oskar Schindler of the Tutsi genocide.

Preserving Memory to Honour Victims and to Deter Genocide Deniers

By Tom Ndahiro

There is a saying that only love beats milk. In our language, Kinyarwanda, the month of April is called Mata. Amata is milk. In April, 1994, Rwanda was soaked in the blood of the Tutsi.

The memories and lessons from the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda live with us. Despite the fact that these recollections are painful, they must be maintained by everyone who cares. This is the only way that humanity will be able to prevent similar genocides from ever happening again.

Rwandan woman identifies US man as participating in attack on mountainside during genocide

By Roxana Hegeman, The Associated Press

WICHITA, Kan. — A woman whose husband and three young children were slaughtered during the 1994 Rwandan genocide cried Thursday as she identified from the witness stand the U.S. man she contends led a mob attack up a mountain where she and many others had sought refuge from the ethnic carnage that was sweeping the African nation.

Rwandan woman identifies US man in genocide

WICHITA, Kansas (AP) – A woman whose husband and three young children were slaughtered during the 1994 Rwandan genocide cried Thursday as she identified from the witness stand the U.S. man she contends led a mob attack up a mountain where she and many others had sought refuge from the ethnic carnage that was sweeping the African nation.

Top Rwandan Hutu FDLR leaders go on trial in Germany

May 4, 2011

The trial against two men accused of masterminding atrocities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has opened in Stuttgart. Never before has FDLR militia been made accountable for its crimes before a court.

Rwanda – from obsession to forgiveness

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.

Rwanda’s survivors choose to forgive

By Jacob Alexander Apr 28, 2011

KIGALI, Rwanda (BP)–April is a time of annual mourning and remembrance in Rwanda as the nation reflects on the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 people were killed. Memorial services are being held across the country and many Rwandese are visiting mass graves where their loved ones are buried, still pained by the bloodshed that nearly destroyed a country.