Rwanda

Like the U.S., Rwanda is in a Pitched Battle Over its History

by Tom Zoellner

"Rwanda holds an important lesson for America’s culture wars today, but not in the way Tucker Carlson thinks. Rather, in Rwanda, political leaders have rewritten the country’s history to gain political power."

France Enabled 1994 Rwanda Genocide, Report Says

A Rwandan government commission has concluded that the government of France supported the leaders of genocide in Rwanda to sustain its own influence. This goes a step beyond a recent French government report that identified French involvement in virulent ethnic politics but not in genocide.

Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stop

by Samantha Lakin

Despite the broader mission’s many well-documented failings, peacekeepers took risks to save lives, going beyond official orders to protect innocent Rwandans.

The End of Humanitarian Intervention? A Debate at the Oxford Union With Historian David Gibbs and Michael Chertoff

by David N. Gibbs

Michael Chertoff -- former Secretary of Homeland Security during the presidency of George W. Bush and coauthor of the USA Patriot Act – defended humanitarian intervention; Gibbs argued against the practice. 

Macron Wants France to Commemorate Rwanda Genocide

France has admitted mistakes in how it handled the killings but has always denied the accusations of complicity

Dictators and Double Standards

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

Rwanda's Paul Kagame has been reelected with 99 percent of the vote. Here's why we shouldn't be celebrating.

U.S. Extradites Baltimore Professor to Rwanda to Stand Trial for Genocide

Rwanda's prosecutor-general said the suspect is considered one of the key ideologues of the genocide, in which over 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu extremists.

Rwanda Pullout Driven by Clinton White House, U.N. Equivocation

Newly declassified Clinton White House e-mails and notes detail a decisive U.S. role in the tragic pullout of United Nations peacekeepers during the first two weeks of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

100 Holocaust Scholars Urge Obama: Relaase White House Emails on Rwanda

The letter of protest by Holocaust scholars was organized by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in Washington, D.C.

Key Decision Makers Gather to Consider the Failure of the International Community in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Leading decision makers from the United Nations, Africa, the United States, and Europe will gather in The Hague from June 1 to 3 to consider the failure of the international community to prevent or effectively respond to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Genocide Commemorations Begin in Rwanda, With Curtailed French Role

French officials said the justice minister would not attend the events after President Paul Kagame of Rwanda accused Paris of “political preparation” in the 1994 killings.

The Rwanda "Genocide Fax": What We Know Now

First Publication of "#Rwanda20yrs" project by U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Security Archive.

Team on the way to collect Congo war crimes suspect

NAIROBI, Kenya — American officials on Wednesday said that a team from the International Criminal Court was on its way to Rwanda to collect a war crimes suspect who had turned himself in to the American Embassy and that they were hoping Rwanda would cooperate.Rwanda has indicated that it would not interfere with the transfer of the suspect, Bosco Ntaganda, a rebel commander nicknamed the Terminator, to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, where he has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.