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 started.” (more…)
BY MAGNUS MAZIMPAKA–FRIDAY, 18 MARCH 2011
37 men accused of a spate of attacks across Rwanda are alleged FDLR agents (more…)
By Deroy Murdock–February 17, 2011
Kigali, Rwanda — Rwanda is like a black Switzerland. Its nickname is “The Land of a Thousand Hills.” This is a gross understatement. Beyond the runway at the airport here in the nation’s capital, one struggles to stay on flat ground for long. In every imaginable direction, hills roll, small mountains dwarf tea plantations, and dramatic, volcanic peaks vanish into the clouds. Curvaceous bends on narrow byways penetrate lush valleys and craggy canyons. On twisted roads, a modest miscalculation could trigger a treacherous and likely fatal tumble into oblivion. (more…)
Telegraph FRIDAY, 08 AUGUST 2008
European leaders are ignoring French involvement in the Rwandan genocide 14 years ago, the country’s foreign minister has told The Telegraph.
By Andrew Porter, Political Editor, in Kigali (more…)
JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law responds to Peter Erlinder’s article Rwanda: Flawed Elections and the Politics of ‘Genocide Denial’, saying that certain of Erlinder’s criticisms of the ICTR are political or unfounded… (more…)
By Michael Montgomery and Stephen Smith
Much of what the world remembers about the Rwandan genocide are grim tales of betrayal, of neighbors killing neighbors and the slaughter of innocents. But there are other stories of people who resisted the urge to kill and who risked their lives to save the lives of others. (more…)
Gerard J DeGroot April 30, 2008
Rwanda’s people, refusing to be trapped in or defined by the 1994 genocide, are writing a new chapter in their history, finds Gerard J DeGroot on a visit to Kigali. (more…)
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