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 [...]
Friday, 8 January 2010 After a long hiatus, the first trial before the ICC recommences with a clear statement: the Court must give justice to girls recruited by the militia of the accused Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. The UN Secretary General's Special Representative for children and armed conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, took the stand [...]
The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Germain Katanga, alleged commander of the Force de résistance patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, alleged former leader of the Front des nationalistes et intégrationnistes, (FNI), are accused of three crimes against humanity (murder, sexual slavery and rape) and seven war crimes (using children [...]
The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Germain Katanga, alleged commander of the Force de résistance patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, alleged former leader of the Front des nationalistes et intégrationnistes, (FNI), are accused of three crimes against humanity (murder, sexual slavery and rape) and seven war crimes (using children [...]
27 June 08 - On Saturday 5 July, 88-year-old Trude Levi will visit The Holocaust Centre, home of the Aegis Trust, as the first of this year’s summer weekend survivor speakers. She will take her listeners back - 64 years to the day - to the last journey she and her parents shared; five days [...]
12 Apr 08 – Survivors from Rwanda, Darfur and the Holocaust – now living in Nottingham, Derby, Coventry and other locations across the Midlands – gathered at the Holocaust Centre for an all-night vigil staged by the Aegis Trust on Saturday night, 12 April, to mark the 14th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan [...]
13 Dec 07 – The Aegis Trust today released a short film about the Nanking massacre on the 70th anniversary of the fall of the city to the Japanese Imperial Army, 13 December 1937. Click here to view In a six-week period following the capture of Nanking, Japanese troops murdered around 300,000 unarmed PoWs and [...]
29 Oct 07 – Vice President of the Methodist Conference Mrs Ruby Beech has praised the work of the Holocaust Centre and Aegis Trust, paying tribute to the founders and urging Methodists to visit the Holocaust Centre in greater numbers. Her comments came on Saturday during her first visit to the Holocaust Centre, accompanied by [...]
Interested in finding out how to campaign against mass murder, rape & pillage in Darfur. Want to help prevent the reoccurrence of genocide elsewhere? Aegis Students warmly invites you to attend its annual summer conference, taking place at the Cass Business School, C.London on September 5th 2007. Aegis Students is an exciting student movement that [...]
Comment by Dr James Smith, CEO Aegis Trust, 21 Aug 07 - The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) recently ruled on a complaint against the Save Darfur Coalition and Aegis Trust regarding how the death toll in Darfur has been represented. ASA identified a 'division of informed opinion' on the mortality in Darfur and stated [...]