New York Times, JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and JOSH KRON Aug 31 2010 NAIROBI, Kenya — Rwanda stepped up its threats on Tuesday to withdraw thousands of peacekeepers from Sudan if the United Nations publishes a report that accuses Rwandan forces of massacring civilians and possibly committing genocide in Congo years ago. Rwanda appears to be trying [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Rwanda’
Rwanda Threatens Darfur Troop Withdrawl if UN Report Published
Posted in News Updates, tagged genocide, Rwanda, UN on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
UN Report on Rwanda Genocide and DRC Sparks Controversy
Posted in News Updates, tagged DRC, genocide, Rwanda, UN on August 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Max Fisher August 29, 2010 The Atlantic Wire A leaked United Nations report on the Rwandan genocide makes the explosive charge that the Rwandan Army, long credited with helping to end the infamous 1994 genocide of ethnic Tutsis, committed hundreds of acts of genocide against ethnic Hutu refugees in 1996-1997. The document, first reported by [...]
Québec court finds Rwandan Désiré Munyaneza guilty
Posted in News Updates, tagged Desire Munyaneza, ICC, ICTR, Quebec, Rome Statute, Rwanda on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From InLawGrrls’ Naomi Norberg, 24 May 2009 In the first-ever application of Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (2000), the Cour supérieure of Québec found Désiré Munyaneza (left, credit) guilty of all 7 counts pending against him since 2005: genocide (intentional murder and serious bodily or mental harm), crimes against humanity (intentional murder [...]
Rwandan High Court Refuses to Free Nkunda
Posted in News Updates, tagged CNDP, DRC, Nkunda, Rwanda on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AFP, 22 May 2009 KIGALI (AFP) — A Rwandan high court has rejected a bid by the wife of Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda to release him, a rights group said Friday. The High Court of Rwanda said on Thursday that Elisee Nkunda’s appeal “did not respect the law” and ordered her to pay legal [...]
Fifteen Years After Genocide, Culprits at Large
Posted in News Updates, tagged 1994, genocide, ICTR, Rwanda on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AFP, 06 April 2009 MONTREAL (AFP) — Fifteen years after the Rwandan genocide, which saw the massacre of some 800,000 people, prosecutors say hundreds of suspected perpetrators are still at large. They include many of those on the wanted list of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), presumed to be living under false identities [...]
Rwandan given 20 year jail term for crimes committed in 1994
Posted in News Updates, tagged genocide, ICTR, Rwanda on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AFP, 23 March 2009 THE HAGUE (AFP) — A court in The Hague on Monday sentenced a Rwandan man to 20 years in prison for torturing to death two women and their four children during the 1994 genocide in his country. The prosecution had called for a life sentence. An appeal court had previously ruled [...]
Rwanda Signs Prisoner Deal with Sierra Leone Court
Posted in News Updates, tagged ICTR, Rwanda, Special Court for Sierra Leone on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AFP, 20 March 2009 FREETOWN (AFP) — Up to eight people sentenced by Sierra Leone’s war crimes court can serve their sentences in a new Rwandan prison under a deal with Kigali, the court said Friday. Signed in the Rwandan capital Wednesday, the deal offers one answer to where to send prisoners convicted by the [...]
Hategekimana Trial Begins at ICTR
Posted in News Updates, tagged ICTR, Rwanda, UN on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The New Times, Kigali, March 18 09 — The trial of Ildephonse Hategekimana started Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) a trial that began with prosecution assuring the court that they have overwhelming evidence against him. The accused, a former officer in the Ex-FAR, is charged with Genocide or in the alternative [...]
