I remember hearing a joke on French radio in 1994. The rock singer Johnny Hallyday — not the brightest spark — was being sent up by a couple of comics. The one playing Johnny was asked what he thought of the conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis. He replied that he liked U2’s latest album and he thought Dustin Hoffman was very good in the movie — so what was there to get upset about? Loud laughter. It was the sort of ghoulish playground joke that is made around the world as a knee-jerk response to some catastrophe, celebrity death or hideous accident, but it must have been aired before the full horror of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 was revealed. As the news began to emerge about what really had happened in the small central African country from April to July, it became clear that the world had witnessed another shocking example of man’s easy inhumanity to man. All jokes died on people’s lips. Read full article > >

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Book World: Naomi Benaron’s ‘Running the Rift’

The International Criminal court releases Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana, after ruling that there is insufficient evidence against him.

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Rwanda rebel freed by world court

A Rwandan opposition party accuses the government of forcing people to exhume remains of relatives killed during the 1994 genocide.

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Rwanda ‘forced exhumation’ claim

A Rwandan genocide suspect, Bernard Munyagishari, is arrested in eastern DR of Congo after being on the run for 17 years.

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Rwanda genocide fugitive arrested

May 2011 is shaping up to be a bad month for wanted war criminals. In the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden and capture of Ratko Mladic, the United Nations announced that a major leader of the Hutu militias in the Rwandan genocide has been captured…

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Rwandan War Criminal Arrested

Two Rwandan exiles in London were warned last week by UK police that they faced the threat of assassination by a Rwandan government hitman.

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Rwandans in UK ‘threatened by hitman’

Former Rwandan army chief Augustin Bizimungu is sentenced to 30 years in prison over the 1994 genocide, as three others are also found guilty.

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The trial of two Rwandan rebel leaders accused of masterminding atrocities in DR Congo starts in Stuttgart in Germany – the first of its kind.

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Rwanda rebels on trial in Germany

The trial of two Rwandan rebel leaders accused of masterminding atrocities in DR Congo starts in Stuttgart in Germany – the first of its kind.

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Rwanda rebels on trial in Germany

A court-appointed guardian’s decision to remove the feeding tube of a Rwandan immigrant, Rachel Nyirahabiyambere, exposes the debate over caring for patients in persistent vegetative states.

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Immigrant’s Health Crisis Leaves Her Family on Sideline

Two Rwandan journalists with the Umurabyo newspaper are sentenced to long jail terms after being found guilty of stirring up ethnic divisions.

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Rwanda journalists sent to jail

A Rwandan Hutu rebel leader faces the International Criminal Court for the first time, accused of “spreading terror” in DR Congo.

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Rwanda rebel in war crimes court

The head of a Rwandan rebel group accused of committing war crimes in DR Congo is being transferred from Paris to The Hague, French prosecutors say.

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A French court orders the extradition of Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana to The Hague to face war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court.

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A man depicted as a hero in the movie “Hotel Rwanda” is slamming accusations by Rwandan authorities that he helped fund a rebel group.

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