The Men Who Killed Me

• News & Events

  Posted on March 6th, 2010

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  conviction, crime

  Belgian court orders new trial for “genocide banker”

  

  On 1 March 2010, the Assize Court of Brussels agreed to a new trial for Rwanda’s former Interhamwe leader, Ephrem Nkezabera, who was sentenced in absentia to 30 years’ imprisonment in December 2009. At that trial, the Assize Court had unanimously sentenced Nkezabera for war crimes, including murder and rape. It was the first time in Belgian judicial history that rape was considered a war crime.

• News & Events

  Posted on March 6th, 2010

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  crime, ICTR

  Butare man pleads ‘not guilty’ for crimes that include rape

  

  In March 2010, Ildephonse Nizeyimana again pleaded ‘not guilty’ to charges of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and rape. Nizeyimana was second-in-command of the Non-commissioned Officers School in the southern town of Butare at the time of the 1994 genocide. Allegedly, Nizeyimana permitted men under his command to rape Tutsi girls and women as part of a genocidal project.

• News & Events

  Posted on July 7th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  crime, gacaca, rape

  Gacaca sentences two men to life sentences for rape

  

  The Hirondelle News Agency reports that a semi-traditional court in Kigali sentenced on Monday two men found guilty of rape during the 1994 genocide to life in imprisonment in isolation. Martin Habimana and Vianney Habimana were tried by the gacaca court of Nyakabanda.

• News & Events

  Posted on July 1st, 2009

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  crime, gacaca, post-genocide

  Gacaca trials likely to continue until end of year

  

  Despite initial plans to wind up trials at the end of June, the Hirondelle News Agency reports gacaca trials in Rwanda will continue until the end of the year.

• News & Events

  Posted on June 21st, 2009

  Written by Sandra

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  Add new tag, crime, post-genocide, rape

  June 16-18 2009: Colloquium on Sexual Violence as International Crime

  

  From 16 to 18 June 2009, an interdisciplinary colloquium focussing on innovations and challenges of empirical and other information gathering techniques to build evidence for the prosecution of cases of sexual violence was held in The Hague. The colloquium also launched the photo-exhibition “The Men Who Killed Me” by Samer Muscati in the lobby of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which will remain until the 3rd of July.

• News & Events

  Posted on May 23rd, 2009

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  conviction, crime, post-genocide

  Quebec court convicts Rwandan man of war crimes

  

  A Quebec court has found Désiré Munyaneza guilty of war crimes committed in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the first conviction under a Canadian law that allows residents to be tried for crimes committed abroad.

• News & Events

  Posted on March 11th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  crime, ICC, peace talks, rape

  Letter from Darfuri Women to the African Union and Arab League

  

  On 4 March 2009, Human Rights Watch posted a letter from 28 women who had fled the Darfur conflict. The women welcome the ICC warrant for Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir.

• News & Events

  Posted on January 17th, 2009

  Written by Sandra

  Tags

  crime, FARG, funds, genocide, survivors

  Genocide fund officials sacked for mismanagement

  

  The Rwandan government has dismissed senior officials working for the Fund for Support of Genocide Survivors (FARG) for alleged misappropriation of millions of government funds targeted for survivors of the infamous 1994 genocide, local media has reported.

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• “Graphically, and without doubt, this book makes the case that rape is no lesser a crime than murder.”

  Lieutenant-General the Honourable Roméo A. Dallaire (ret.), Senator
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