Posts Tagged ‘Rwanda’
Jean apologizes for Canada’s role in RwandaBy Editor - April 21st, 2010 |
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Governor-General Michaëlle Jean formally apologized to Rwandans for Canada’s role as part of the international community that failed to act “soon enough” to prevent the 1994 genocide. Declaring the genocide was made possible by the “indifference and inaction of the international community,” Jean said “Canada acknowledges and takes responsibility as part of the international community for not having responded soon enough to what was happening here.” |
Rwandan genocidaire leads middle-class life in AlabamaBy Editor - April 6th, 2010 |
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Jean Damascene Bizimana, 56, a Rwandan politician, wanted for his alleged role in the Rwandan Genocide, with a pending warrant for arrest against him by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), has been discovered leading a middle-class life as an American citizen in the small town of Opelika, Alabama, David L. Bosco, a professor at the American University, Washington D.C. reported in the weekend Washington Post. Bizimana was Rwanda’s UN Ambassador at the time when the assassination of Rwanda’s president unleashed a horrific three-month genocide that would ultimately kill 800,000 people. |
16th Year Remembrance of the Rwandan GenocideBy Editor - April 5th, 2010 |
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Today marks the 16th remembrance year of the Rwandan Genocide. Our thoughts are with those unfortunate victims of the Rwandan Genocide, and all those who have suffered under genocidal programs. |
