October 22, 2026
Somewhere in a compound in Southeast Asia, a university-educated young African is typing fraud scripts he never chose to write. At home, his…
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Kwibuka is a burden only to those who have denounced the family and for whom night dancing is a way of life
It is astonishing to realise that two powerful UN states — the UK and US – remain at odds with the word genocide — and continue themselves to contribute to the denial campaign the Security Council seeks to outlaw.
If the US and UK can hold remembrance for Holocaust victims without feeling that they are excluding other Germans, then to suggest otherwise for Rwanda is to make a mockery of the survivors
In our discussions with different people on the subject of genocide, the failure of generational ac- countability has been a recurrent theme. This failure is
Between 1959 and 1994, Rwanda remained unofficially under a regime of “counter-insurgency warfare” by maintaining control of the bodies and minds of the population through racist indoctrination and terror, by maintaining the existence of parallel structures and by developing so-called “self-defence” militias
As the RPF appeals to the offspring of genocide perpetrators to dissociate themselves from the crimes of their parents, those who seek to demystify the RPF make the opposite appeal, calling on them to justify the actions of their parents and to even defend their “honour.”
“Any good-faith defender of free speech and freedom of the media ought to situate the discourse in relation to the relevant international instruments and domestic legislation, as well as their enforcement.”
The excerpts below demonstrate how people view genocide ideology as a mind prison and how those in prison for it are serving a double sentence
For 10 years, I have been involved the fight for the preservation of memory around the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis in Rwanda. Through this
The threat of Genocide has hovered over Africans because the colonial state hasn’t been able to afford security to all. Although the Rwandan state existed
Kwibuka is a burden only to those who have denounced the family and for whom night dancing is a way of life
It is astonishing to realise that two powerful UN states — the UK and US – remain at odds with the word genocide — and continue themselves to contribute to the denial campaign the Security Council seeks to outlaw.
If the US and UK can hold remembrance for Holocaust victims without feeling that they are excluding other Germans, then to suggest otherwise for Rwanda is to make a mockery of the survivors
In our discussions with different people on the subject of genocide, the failure of generational ac- countability has been a recurrent theme. This failure is
Between 1959 and 1994, Rwanda remained unofficially under a regime of “counter-insurgency warfare” by maintaining control of the bodies and minds of the population through racist indoctrination and terror, by maintaining the existence of parallel structures and by developing so-called “self-defence” militias
As the RPF appeals to the offspring of genocide perpetrators to dissociate themselves from the crimes of their parents, those who seek to demystify the RPF make the opposite appeal, calling on them to justify the actions of their parents and to even defend their “honour.”
“Any good-faith defender of free speech and freedom of the media ought to situate the discourse in relation to the relevant international instruments and domestic legislation, as well as their enforcement.”
The excerpts below demonstrate how people view genocide ideology as a mind prison and how those in prison for it are serving a double sentence
For 10 years, I have been involved the fight for the preservation of memory around the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis in Rwanda. Through this
The threat of Genocide has hovered over Africans because the colonial state hasn’t been able to afford security to all. Although the Rwandan state existed
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Part of the problem facing Africa is that the agency to articulate the trials and tribulations of Africans has for long been usurped by foreigners. As a principle, everyone should get involved in debates on Africa, of course. However, rather than Read more