The Gacaca courts (semi-traditional courts) are scheduled to end in June this year. Inspired by Rwandan tradition, the gacaca courts are charged with trying people in Rwanda suspected to have taken part in the 1994 killing spree against Tutsis. In 2008 an amendment of the law broadened the jurisdiction of the gacaca to rape cases.
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.
Fifteen years after the Rwandan genocide, The Men Who Killed Me features testimonials from seventeen survivors. Through their narratives and portraits, sixteen women and one man bear witness to the crimes committed against hundreds of thousands of others. Proceeds from this book will go to Mukomeze, a charitable organization established to improve the lives of girls and women who survived sexual violence in the Rwandan genocide.
Théoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel accused of being a mastermind behind the 1994 Rwanda genocide, was sentenced today to life in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Our book partners, Stephen Lewis and Eve Ensler, were in Toronto last week speaking about the horrific sexual violence afflicting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Almost 15 years after the Rwandan genocide, there are claims of a campaign to murder survivors to prevent them from testifying against the perpetrators of the genocide. According to the Hirondelle News Agency in Arusha, 167 genocide survivors have been murdered since 1995.
After a ceremony last summer commemorating the end of the annual mourning period for victims of the genocide, our friend and colleague Ben took us on a tour of the memorial site housing mass graves and explains the history.
