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On May 6, 1994, the UN Security Council declined a request to beef up its forces aimed at peacekeeping in Rwanda. Courtesy of United Nations, New York Photo
Kwibuka

May 6, 1994: UN declines proposal to send more troops to Rwanda

Monday, May 06, 2024
Catholic nuns who are genocide convicts Maria Kizito Mukabutera and Gertrude Mukangango. Mukangango was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Belgium while Sister Kizito was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Kwibuka

May 5, 1994: Catholic nun’s letter leads to massacre of Tutsi refugees at Sovu Monastery

Sunday, May 05, 2024
Members of Unity Club-Intwararumuri lay wreaths to pay tribute to over 50,000 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi laid to rest at Murambi Genocide Memorial in Nyamagabe District, on Friday, May 3. Courtesy
Kwibuka

‘Never again’ should be a promise not a plea, says Rwandan minister

Saturday, May 04, 2024
On May 2, 1994, the killers' government aimed to carry out a massacre of Tutsi sheltering at Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali. Courtesy
Kwibuka

May 2, 1994: Plot to attack refugees at Hotel des Mille Collines foiled

Thursday, May 02, 2024
Mourners during a decent burial of victims at the 12th commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi at Nyundo Genocide memorial site. On May 1, 1994 at Nyundo Catholic Church in Rubavu district, more Tutsi were slaughtered.
Kwibuka

May 1, 1994: Genocide enters new month with continuing atrocities

Wednesday, May 01, 2024
Gisenyi Genocide Memorial at ‘Commune Rouge’ in Rubavu District. On April 30, 1994, many Tutsi were killed at this site after they had been tricked to come out of their hiding places. Photo: Courtesy.
Kwibuka

April 30, 1994: Tutsi massacred in Gisenyi’s commune rouge

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Speaking during the 30th Commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London, on April 25, Rwanda's envoy to the UK, Johnston Busingye, said the Genocide against the Tutsi didn’t start with the machetes of April 1994. It started decades earlier with state directed ethnic populism, classification, discrimination, dehumanization, over time, all done with unimaginable impunity, he said.
Kwibuka

No Genocide happens without a plan, preparation, state involvement – Rwandan envoy

Friday, April 26, 2024
Some remains of different equipment that were properties of victims of Genocide against the Tutsi, who were exhumed from mass graves. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Kwibuka

April 26, 1994: 20,000 Tutsi massacred in Tambwe

Friday, April 26, 2024
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Belgium has a moral imperative to come clean on events in Rwanda

Tuesday, April 23, 2024
An excavator exhumes remains of Tutsi victims at a dam in Gatsibo. File
Kwibuka

April 23, 1994: Tutsi thrown into Nyamagana pond, Burundians take part in killings

Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Some of the mercenaries fighting alongside FARDC against M23 in the eastern DR Congo.

No, Bloomberg News, the only thing deepening DR Congo conflict is its rulers and their bedfellows

Monday, April 22, 2024
On April 21, 1994, the United Nations disregarded the urgent calls regarding the escalating crisis in Rwanda as the UN Security Council amended the UNAMIR mandate and withdrew a portion of its troops from the country.
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April 21, 1994: UN ignores warnings, adopts resolution to withdraw some troops from Rwanda

Sunday, April 21, 2024