Aaron Kabogora News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Using the principle of universal jurisdiction, a French court on December 16 sentenced Rwandan Claude Muhayimana to 14 years in jail for complicity in genocide. Muhayimana was accused of having, in 1994, transported Hutu militiamen to the hills of western Rwanda to massacre Tutsis. The defence, which has appealed, claims he was just a "simple driver," but civil parties say this trial was as important as any other.

From France to Rwanda's hills, the husband-and-wife genocide hunters

Channels Television   Updated January 27, 2021 Bisesero genocide survivors Narcisse Kabanda (R) and Aaron Mukomeza (L) pose for a portrait in Bisesero, western Rwanda, on December 2, 2020. – Narcisse Kabanda says that it gives them strength every time they hear that people on the run who carried out the genocide have been arrested. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP)   A stunned silence, and then cries of joy ring out in the green Bisesero hills. Survivors of one of the most terrible episodes of the genocide in Rwanda have just spotted Alain Gauthier — their lifeline to justice. “I’ve ...

The genocide detectives Nicknamed “The Klarsfelds of Rwanda” after Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, Alain and Dafroza Gauthier are fighting to prevent evil from being consigned to a footnote of history AFP, BISESERO, Rwanda A stunned silence, and then cries of joy ring out in the green Bisesero hills. Survivors of one of the most terrible episodes of the genocide in Rwanda have just spotted Alain Gauthier — their lifeline to justice. “I’ve come to say turikumwe (“we are together”) and that you mustn’t lose heart or hope,” the 72-year-old Frenchman tells them. A genera...

With his Rwandan born wife Dafroza, who lost family in the genocide, Alain Gauthier has spent decades of his life tracking down Rwandan genocide suspects who have found refuge in France. "Our lives were turned upside-down on the night of April 6, 1994. During the three months of the genocide, we worked tirelessly to make people aware of what was going on in Rwanda," he said. Many still seek justice 27 years after the genocide that killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus "You can see today it is the memorial, but in 1994 it was not the memorial, it was the prefecture stadium, that is where we...