Some truth and justice for Rwanda at last
Two seemingly unrelated Rwandan stories made both history and the headlines this week.
Tag Hutu
Rwanda: French court exonerates Kagame in genocide
A team of French experts undertook fresh investigations into the 1994 downing of the plane carrying former Rwanda’s President Juvenal Habyarimana, yesterday released their findings, exonarating current President Paul Kagame and his Tutsi allies after Paris had previously accused him of triggering the killing of 800,000 people in 100 days.
UN report accuses Rwandan army of genocide
The French media Le Monde reported on Friday that a UN report will detail mass killing of Hutu refugees by Rwandan forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the late 1990s. The report have seen what it describes as “an almost definitive version” 600-page UN report. The document investigates human rights abuses in eastern DRC, between 1993 and 2003.
The Batwa-Rwandans, actors in 2010 elections
In Rwanda those Batwa taking part in the preparations for the August 9 election are numerous. They are learning to read and write and fill out all voter applications. The day of the vote some will act as observers. They hope that this election will be another step towards further integration.
Rwanda: Kagame’s ‘Congo crisis’
Nairobi — On June 20 as we drove to President Paul Kagame‘s country home in Muhazi, we encountered what was once a very common sight around Rwanda. A group of prisoners, in garish pink (Rwandese prison authorities have a hopeless fashion sense) were walking single file — as soldiers would do — back to a nearby prison. Many of them participated in the 1994 genocide.
