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Lubanga Chronicle #66 – Prosecution: The money provided to the defence witness was not in return for any information

Tuesday, 9 March 2010 - Prosecution: The money provided to the defence witness was not in return for any information.

Lubanga´s defence continues questioning Witness 16.  "Yesterday you mentioned you said lies to the OTP investigators.  You planned to say, ´he enlisted children in the army´," says Mr. Biju-Duval.  "What army you were referring to? And when you talked about ´he´, who you wer...

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Katanga-Ngudjolo #14 Prosecution Witness 161 gives a surprising account

Tuesday 2 March, 2010- Prosecution Witness 161 gives a surprising account

The fifth prosecution witness surprises everyone with his account. During the course of his testimony, he claims that German Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo were present at the crime scene.  This is an allegation which has not appeared in any of his previous statements. The legal debate starts.

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Rwandan survivors welcome French arrest of Habyarimana

2 Mar 10 - Agathe Habyarimana, widow of the Rwandan president whose assassination was the starting-pistol for the 1994 Rwandan genocide, was arrested in France this morning on a Rwandan-issued international arrest warrant. She is suspected of helping to mastermind the 100-day slaughter, in which an estimated million Tutsis were murdered, along with thousands of Hutus opposed to the extremist regim...

Sarkozy pays tribute to Rwanda genocide victims at Kigali Memorial Centre

25 Feb 10 - During his visit to Rwanda today, French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. There he laid flowers at the mass graves where over 250,000 victims of the 1994 genocide lie buried, and observed a minute of silence in memory of the million dead, before touring the main exhibition, which portrays the history of the genocide.

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British PoW who saved Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz joins survivors to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

26 Jan 10 – Wartime hero Denis Avey, who as a prisoner of war in Auschwitz helped save the life of Jewish inmate Ernst Lobethall, today joined survivors at The Holocaust Centre – home of the Aegis Trust – on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day to commemorate those who died. This year it is the 65 ^th anniversary of the liberation of the notorious death camp, in which an estimated 960,000 Jews wer...