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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 624

Rwandan genocide

A view of jewelry belonging to victims as they sought refuge placed on the altar, as a memorial to the thousands who were killed during the 1994 genocide in and around the Catholic church, in Nyamata, Rwanda, Friday, April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
June 11, 2024, 3:50 am
Man jailed in Belgium for 25 years over Rwandan genocide
Court finds Belgian-Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye guilty of war crimes and genocide for series of murders as well as the rape of a Tutsi woman
By AFP
President Isaac Herzog arrives in Rwanda to attend ceremony marking 30 years since the Rwandan genocide, April 7, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
April 7, 2024, 12:57 pm
Herzog visits Rwanda for genocide memorial; will highlight hostages, terrorism
Event on 30th anniversary of killing spree also attended by US and French ex-presidents Clinton and Sarkozy
By ToI Staff
Fulgence Kayishema sits in the Magistrate's Court in Cape Town, South Africa, May 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)
May 29, 2023, 2:58 am
Suspect in Rwanda genocide church massacre appears in court holding Bible
Former cop Fulgence Kayishema nabbed in South Africa, goes on trial after 22 years on the run; allegedly orchestrated killings of over 2,000 people
By Gerald Imray
Former Rwanda army colonel Theoneste Bagosora sits at the Rwanda International Criminal Tribunal (ICTR) in Arusha, on December 18, 2008. (Tony KARUMBA / AFP / File)
September 26, 2021, 10:22 pm
Theoneste Bagosora, architect of Rwandan genocide, dies at 80 in Mali
Former army colonel was serving a 35-year sentence for crimes against humanity committed during the 1994 killings
By IGNATIUS SSUUNA
Carine Kanimba speaks at a TEDx confrence in Portland, September 19, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
July 20, 2021, 4:04 pm
‘Hotel Rwanda’ activist’s daughter said targeted by Israeli spyware
Carine Kanimba’s cell number reportedly on the list of targets tied to NSO Group; Rwanda claims it does not possess the technical capability to use such software
By Ivan Rush Mugisha and Tanya Willmer
In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011 file photo skulls of Ovaherero and Nama people are displayed during a devotion attended by representatives of the tribes from Namibia in Berlin, Germany. Germany has reached an agreement with Namibia that will see it officially recognize as genocide the colonial-era killings of tens of thousands of people and commit to spending a total of 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion), largely on development projects. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
May 29, 2021, 9:10 am
Namibia: The first in a dark century of massacres
1948 UN convention says genocide is ‘act committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group’; many massacres still not recognized
By AFP
Paul Rusesabagina appears in front of media at the headquarters of the Rwanda Bureau of investigations building in Kigali, Rwanda, August 31, 2020. (AP Photo)
August 31, 2020, 8:27 pm
‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero arrested on terror charges, say police
Rwandan police accuse Paul Rusesabagina, a prominent critic of President Kagame, of being a ‘founder, leader, sponsor and member of violent, armed, extremist terror outfits’
By IGNATIUS SSUUNA
Labor leader Avi Gabbay, left, attending a news conference in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2017; Yair Lapid attending a conference in Herzliya, June 22, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90; Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
January 29, 2018, 6:17 pm
Gabbay, Lapid blast government over Polish, Rwandan genocide initiatives
‘We don’t negotiate over the memory of the deceased,’ Yesh Atid chairman, the son of a Holocaust survivor, says, as Labor party head lambastes the PM for ‘imitating’ far right
By Raoul Wootliff
UN peacekeepers patrol in the disputed Chebaa Farms area between Lebanon and Israel, overlooking the divided border village of Ghajar, southeast Lebanon, February 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
January 29, 2018, 2:18 pm
Hezbollah said to threaten attack over Israeli border barrier
Israeli officials said to dismiss threat conveyed via UN forces, warn the Lebanese terror group will ‘pay dearly’ for any provocation
By ToI Staff
From left to right: Honore Gatera, the director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and Rwandan President Paul Kagama, in Kigali, Rwanda, July 6, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
January 28, 2018, 10:39 pm
Breaking with West, Israel backs Rwanda in renaming genocide
Hours before row with Poland, Jerusalem accused of supporting rewriting of history elsewhere, in reported quid pro quo with Kigali over migrants
By ToI Staff
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame (center) shakes hands with President Reuven Rivlin (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
July 10, 2017, 4:32 pm
Rwanda’s Kagame visiting as Israel looks to boost Africa ties
2-day trip to focus on investment, but also Israel’s bid to counter anti-Israel bias at UN and the shared experience overcoming genocide
By Sue Surkes
French President Emmanuel Macron (C) walks with children during a ceremony to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Stephane Mahe)
June 10, 2017, 7:04 pm
At WWII memorial, Macron urges kids to fight against atrocities
French president commemorates deadliest Nazi massacre, notes similar horrors have continued in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and Syria
By AP
The Kingsa Blues Band performs at Impact Hub, a space for social entrepreneurs and startups, in Kigali, Rwanda, on February 13, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 7, 2017, 1:59 am
Rwanda hopes high-tech can replace genocide as its defining feature
23 years on, and with Israel’s success as a model, the landlocked African nation is harnessing its entrepreneurial spirit to overcome a lack of natural resources
By Melanie Lidman
One of the dance troupes at the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda performs on February 17, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
April 2, 2017, 11:17 am
In Rwanda, Israeli-inspired youth village is walking on sunshine
East Africa’s largest field of solar panels leases land from Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, highlighting the rural area as a center of innovation
By Melanie Lidman
A woman goofs around with her neighbor's baby during the Umuganda community meeting in Kigali, Rwanda on February 25, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
March 27, 2017, 10:29 pm
In once-torn Rwanda, fear of a fine molds a nation of do-gooders
Through Umuganda, the monthly government-mandated community service, Rwandans piece together a society shattered by genocide
By Melanie Lidman
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