Habyarimana cabinet discussed Genocide
By Patrick Bigabo and Agencies
17th July, 2005
The New Times
Shocking reports indicate that a testimony that was recorded as a transcript of sixty hours of interrogations of former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda, reveals that the Genocide was openly discussed in cabinet meetings of the defunct Juvenal Habyarimana regime.
The report, widely believed to have been leaked to Linda Melvern, a British author of the book ‘Conspiracy to Murder - The Rwandan Genocide’, says a senior official from the Rwandan war crimes tribunal (ICTR) flew to London last week to question how she obtained the secret confessions of a 1994 Rwandan Genocide organiser for inclusion in her recently-published book. It is believed that Melvern obtained a copy of the transcript from unofficial sources. read article...
Report of the Independant Inquiry
into the Actions of the United Nations during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
United Nations
Approximately 800,000 people were killed durning the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The systematic slaughter of men, women and children which took place over the course of about 100 days between April and July of 1994 will forever be remembered as one of the most abhorrent event of the twentieth century. Rwandans killed Rwandans, brutally decimating the Tutsi populalation of the country, but also targeting moderate Hutus. Appalling atrocities were commited, by militia and the armed forces, but also by civilians against civilians. read report online... download PDF...
An African tragedy the world ignores – again
Campaigning journalist Linda Melvern tells Peter Gruner why the international community must take action against The Sudan
Camden New Journal
The world stood up and declared it must never happen again after a million civilians were horrifically murdered by an opposing African tribe 10 years ago.
Today, on the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan tragedy, similar atrocities are not only happening in The Sudan, but international leaders are again turning a blind eye to the slaughter and deprivation of thousands of innocent people. link to article...
10 Years After Genocide in Rwanda
Building Consensus for the Responsibility to Protect
On the morning of 26 March 2004, members of the United Nations (UN) community shared a somber minute of silence to honor the over 800,000 victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Thus began the Memorial Conference on the Rwandan Genocide, which was jointly organized by the governments of Rwanda and Canada to ensure that the lives lost in Rwanda are remembered and to examine the continuing implications of the Rwanda tragedy for the international community. download PDF...
Lessons from Rwanda - Lessons for Today
Danida, Foreign Ministry
April 2005
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Following the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs initiated a comprehensive evaluation of the international response. The findings were highly critical of nearly all the international actors. Ten years after the genocide the Ministry commissioned this assessment of the impact and influence of the evaluation. It concludes that the evaluation contributed to increased accountability among humanitarian organizations and that it had important influences on several major donor policies. But, the evaluation’s main conclusion –that “humanitarian action cannot substitute for political action”—remains just as valid today. link to article...
Globalisation and Insecurity
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Small Arms Availability
H. C. R. Muggah
The unregulated availability of small arms and light weapons made possible by globalisation undermines livelihood strategies and imperils development opportunities. The widespread diffusion of such weapons feeds cycles of insecurity that have broad-reaching consequences on individuals and the functioning of societies. This article seeks to outline the broad social and economic consequences of unregulated small arms availability and use in the North and South. In distilling the broad ‘social’ effects of small arms availability on societies, the article departs from a traditional supply-side ‘demilitarisation’ approach to the study of small arms, opting instead for a more expansive appraisal of the varied dimensions of insecurity.
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Rwanda And Its European And Western Meddlers
July 23, 2006
Road to Peace
First came the Germans: a result of the Berlin Conference of 1885 at which European imperial powers carved up Africa among themselves. Until 4 May 1894, Rwanda had been a mountain kingdom of many hills and lush valleys. It was a Garden of Eden to many. link to article...
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