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 ‘Hutu’
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
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…)
In 1994 “There were bodies in every street in Rwanda”
Posted: October 26, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: genocide, Hutu, International Law, Rwanda, Tutsi
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. (more…)
Are Colleges and Universities in North America Unwittingly Providing a Platform to a Tutsi Genocide Revisionist?
Posted: May 30, 2011 in AnalysisTags: An Ordinary Man, genocide, Hotel Rwanda, Hutu, National Civil Rights, Oskar Schindler, Paul Rusesabagina, Rwanda, Terry George, Tutsi
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. (more…)
Rwandan woman identifies US man as participating in attack on mountainside during genocide
Posted: May 6, 2011 in NewsTags: Federal, genocide, Hutu, Kobagaya, Rwanda, U.S. citizenship
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. (more…)
Rwandan woman identifies US man in genocide
Posted: May 6, 2011 in NewsTags: genocide, Hutu, Kansas, Kobagaya, Rwanda, U.S. citizenship
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. (more…)
Preserving Memory to Honour Victims and to Deter Genocide Deniers
Posted: May 16, 2011 in CommentTags: Academia, Armenian Genocide, Ban Ki-moon, Dignity, genocide, Genocide Denial, Holocaust, Hutu, Memory, Tutsi
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. (more…)