Rwanda

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Damas Gisimba, centre, sheltered more than 400 children and adults in his Kigali orphanage. Photograph: Gisimba Memorial Center Photograph: Gisimba Memorial Center Damas Gisimba, centre, sheltered more than 400 children and adults in his Kigali orphanage. Photograph: Gisimba Memorial Center Photograph: Gisimba Memorial Center On 6 April, the plane carrying the Rwandan president, Juvénal Habyarimana, was shot down and his death was blamed on Tutsi rebels. Within hours, Kigali was surrounded by roadblocks and His death is a loss for the Rwandan people. There are people who survived because of him Eustochie Sezibera, CorpsAfrica Rwanda Over the next three months, Gisimba, who was of mixed Hutu-Tutsi ethnicity but had a Hutu ID card, and his brother, Jean-Francois, sheltered more than 400 children and adults who hid in the attic, the basement and in locked rooms. “Damas is the reason why me and my family are alive today,” said Sonia Mugabo, a 33-year-old fashion designer, who was four when the genocide started. “In the 1994 genocide, we were living next to the orphanage. He welcomed our family – he saved our lives.” Mugabo’s lawyer father, Pio, was a member of the opposition Liberal party and on a list of those to be murdered. After the genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 people were murdered, he served as social welfare minister in the transitional national government. Gisimba hid the Mugabo family at great personal risk to himself and others in the orphanage. Had the mil...

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unirmct Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, Mechanism President, reported that in-court proceedings are all but concluded as only one case related to core crimes committed in Rwanda now remains on the docket. “This represents a watershed moment in the life of the Mechanism and for international criminal justice more generally,” she Unfit for trial The Mechanism performs essential functions previously carried out by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( The outstanding case concerns Félicien Kabuga, founder of Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, whose broadcasts fuelled hatred and violence against the Tutsi and others. Last week, Mr. Kabuga, 88, was deemed unfit to stand trial but an “alternative findings procedure” will be held to provide an opportunity for him to establish his innocence. Genocide denial Ms. Gatti Santana also addressed areas that she said require the Council’s “urgent attention and vigorous backing”, such as enforcement of sentences. However, she reported that arguably the biggest threat they face is the “relentless attempts to undermine our current work and also the judgements issued by the ICTR, the ICTY and the Mechanism”. She pointed to Serbia’s “persistent failure to arrest and surrender” politicians Petar Jojić and Vjerica Radeta, for their alleged interference with the administration of justice. “Moreover, there is the disturbing trend of genocide denial, the glorification of war criminals, the purported re-writing of history, and even ...

PARIS, June 10 (Reuters) - A former lieutenant colonel convicted of inciting genocide in Rwanda in 1994 has died in Niger after an appeal for medical assistance in Britain went unanswered, his lawyer said on Saturday. Tharcisse Muvunyi was in the Rwandan army when ruling Hutu majority extremists killed more than 800,000 minority Tutsis and Hutu moderates in 100 days. He was arrested in the United Kingdom, sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2010 and freed two years later after time served. "Yesterday afternoon Muvunyi was found dead in the shower by one of his housemates," Muvunyi's lawyer Abbe Jolles told Reuters. Muvunyi lived in a safe house in Tanzania on release in 2012 and moved to Niger in 2021 in a house with seven others who had been tried for their roles in the genocide. He had been sick for weeks. On May 6, he was found unconscious at home and taken to hospital for brain scans that were never completed. He was discharged on May 10. Six days later, Jolles filed a request with the United Nations for Muvunyi's medical evacuation to the UK. "Muvunyi needs urgent medical care," said the request that Jolles shared with Reuters. She did not hear back. The U.N. did not respond to a request for comment. About Reuters • About Reuters , opens new tab • Careers , opens new tab • Reuters News Agency , opens new tab • Brand Attribution Guidelines , opens new tab • Reuters Leadership , opens new tab • Reuters Fact Check , opens new tab • Reuters Diversity Report , opens new tab...