Death Penalty, Peace and Reconciliation
Between 1994 and the year 2003, the National Courts in Rwanda tried over 5,000 genocide cases and sentenced over 698 people to death. It is a sentence that sits well with...
REBUILDING FROM THE ROOTS: Children, Peace and Reconciliation
One of the greatest challenges facing Rwanda, is how best to build a lasting peace among all its citizens, following the genocide of 1994.
The National Unity and Reconciliation Commission has encouraged...
Rwanda Jails Former President Bizimungu
Kigali - A Rwandan court sentenced former president Pasteur Bizimungu on Monday to 15 years imprisonment for charges that included creating a militia and inciting violence in a country still scarred...
Rwandan Media: Judging the Past, Looking to the Future
By Mary Kimani,
KIGALI - All over Kigali there is the new sound of music and programming coming through the airwaves. It is the sound of Radio 10, the first in a...
A Year After the Release of Prisoners: HOW PEOPLE VIEW GACACA
KIGALI - In May 2003 thousands of prisoners who had confessed to genocide were released and returned home. A year since their release some have begun to take an active role...
Truth and Reconciliation: The Way Forward for Rwanda?
By Geoffrey Mutagoma,
KIGALI - On the eve of the year 2003 Rwandan president Paul Kagame issued a presidential decree which would see 18,000 prisoners released from Rwandan jails a month later.
The...
Coming Home: Rwanda’s Child Soldiers in DR Congo
By Geoffrey Mutagoma,
KIGALI - Ten years after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, a generation of children continue to fight ideological wars against Rwanda from the Eastern parts of the Democratic Republic...
Repatriating and Rehabilitating Rwanda’s Ex-Combatants
KIGALI - Ten years after the 1994 genocide Rwanda faces the challenge of demobilizing, repatriating and reintegrating thousands of former government soldiers and militia men who fled into the Democratic Republic...
The Courage to Survive
KIGALI - After the horrors of the 1994 genocide, it seemed almost inconceivable that one day, Rwandans of different ethnic backgrounds might live side-by-side in peace.
But early in 1995, women from...
RWANDA’S RECONCILIATION EFFORTS: A BASKET OF PEACE
KIGALI - Over thirty years ago, a group of Rwandan women formed a handicraft association to make traditional baskets and to generate a little cash income. The group was called dufatanye,...
