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Rwanda: More Evidence Pins France On Genocide. By James Karuhanga, The New Times. Recent reports in the French media have been awash with damning evidence about France’s complicity in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. New revelations have, among others, … Continue Reading »
880 More Families Wiped Out During Genocide Identified. By Emmanuel Ntirenganya, The New Times. Genocide survivors have this year identified 886 families whose 4,256 members were wiped out during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The families were identified in … Continue Reading »
Facing Life After Death of the Family Breadwinner. By Donah Mbabazi, Opinion, The New Times. It has been three hard years since Jeanine Mukabacondo lost her husband Patrick Kanyamibwa in a motor accident. After six years of courtship, the couple … Continue Reading »
Rwanda’s children of rape are coming of age — against the odds. By Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post. Angel was 11 the last time her mother tried to kill her. She remembers the handful of rat poison pellets, the urging: Take … Continue Reading »
SURF Clinical Psychogist, Jemma Hogwood, is the lead author of a new academic paper “I Learned Who I Am”: Young People Born From Genocide Rape in Rwanda and Their Experiences of Disclosure.” The paper, published in this month’s Journal of … Continue Reading »
Graduate Genocide Survivors’ Organisation (GAERG), the association of student survivors of Genocide (AERG), and the Survivors Fund (SURF) have launched an entrepreneurship innovation fund intended to support youth’s income-generating projects. The fund, launched on Friday, started with $50,000 (Rwf40 million) … Continue Reading »
Genocide Remains Decomposing at Major Memorial Site. By KT Press Staff Writer. At a genocide memorial site in eastern Rwanda, remains of more than 40,000 Tutsi victims could soon be no more if urgent action is not taken. The location, … Continue Reading »
Rwanda Sets Aside Rwf6bn for Damaged Genocide Memorial Sites. By Jean de la Croix Tabaro, KT Press. Rwanda has embarked on intensive rehabilitation and extension of major genocide memorials, pending a definitive burial for remains and registration of four genocide … Continue Reading »
Kwibuka23: Increase punishment for Genocide ideology, says Ibuka. By James Karyhanga, The New Times. Not only should the law punishing the crime of Genocide ideology be made tougher but the government and civil society too need to up their momentum … Continue Reading »
Student survivors find healing through AERG. By Lydia Atieno, The New Times. After the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, many survivors lost their families and had no place to call home or a family to lean on. This is how … Continue Reading »