Tag: Rwandan gEnocide

Cape Town-based non-profit organisation (NPO) Open Secrets wants Pretoria resident Willem “Ters” Ehlers prosecuted for aiding and abetting the April 1994 Rwanda genocide. It submitted...

As the world marks the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda, it is important to understand what...

A Rwandan fugitive, wanted in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has been arrested in Paarl in the Western Cape by a South African...

A French court ordered Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga on Wednesday to be handed over to a United Nations tribunal for trial, rejecting arguments...

The children of detained Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga accused French authorities of violating his “fundamental human rights” on Friday, saying he has severe...

A Rwandan court on Thursday handed a life sentence to a former politician found guilty of orchestrating the killing of tens of thousands of...

Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, arrested this month after more than two decades on the run, told a French court on Wednesday that the...

Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga was arraigned before a French public prosecutor on Tuesday, three days after police swooped on his hideout in a...

French intelligence agents spied on the children of Rwanda’s most-wanted genocide fugitive to track him down to an apartment in a Paris suburb and...

French gendarmes arrested Felicien Kabuga, wanted for allegedly financing the Rwandan genocide, near Paris on 16 May after a global manhunt spanning more than...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame began a week of solemn ceremonies on Sunday to commemorate the lives of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus murdered during...

A Swedish court sentenced on Monday a 61-year-old man to life in prison for genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the second such...

Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo said they had arrested the deputy commander of a rebel group linked to Rwanda's genocide, in...

A Rwanda court handed a life sentence on Friday to a former senior politician for hate speech aimed at stirring up killings...

Democratic Republic of Congo has arrested a former mayor accused of orchestrating a massacre that killed tens of thousands of people during...

Human rights groups are demanding that French soldiers active in Rwanda in 1994 be formally put under investigation on suspicion of complicity...

A French court has dropped a long-running case against a Rwandan priest suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his...

A German court jailed the former political leader of a Rwandan rebel group on Monday for abetting war crimes committed in neighbouring...

Swedish prosecutors have charged a 60-year-old man with genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the second such case brought by the Nordic country...

Rwanda's intelligence chief told a London court on Thursday he would fight an attempt to extradite him to Spain, where he is...

Rwanda's High Court sentenced a former high-ranking politician and businessman on Friday to 30 years in jail for involvement in the 1994...

A Rwandan man accused of war crimes was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol in northern Maine after a local citizen reported...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame doesn't often speak French. But at the 20th anniversary commemoration of the 1994 genocide on 7 April, he...

Someone visiting Kigali these days would have great difficulty imagining that exactly 20 years ago, streets, ditches and latrines were filling up...

The United Nations chief told a packed stadium of sombre and weeping Rwandans on Monday the world would "never again" let genocide...

France said on Saturday it had cancelled plans to attend a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide following accusations...

A Paris court sentenced a former Rwandan soldier to 25 years in jail on Friday for his role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide,...

French prosecutors are seeking a life term for a Rwandan ex-soldier accused of participating in the country's 1994 genocide, in a verdict...

A German court on Tuesday sentenced a Rwandan Hutu to 14 years in jail for his role in the genocide of Tutsis...

Rwanda's former intelligence director denied charges of crimes against humanity and complicity in the 1994 genocide and told a Paris court on...

Twenty years after the Rwanda genocide, France opened its first trial against a suspected accomplice in the massacre that killed 800,000 people,...

Dutch authorities said on Thursday they had detained a former Rwandan politician suspected of compiling death lists during the country's 1994 genocide...

Neighbor turning on neighbor, villages razed to the ground, hundreds of victims shot or hacked to death with machetes. The U.S. ambassador to...

The Security Council extended the mandates of the United Nations tribunals set up to deal with the worst atrocities committed during the...