31 Mar 06 - Holocaust survivors last week praised ‘Shooting Dogs’, the new BBC feature film set in the Rwandan genocide, after joining the stars to view it at the UK Premiere. (Pictured, left to right: Beatha Uwazaninka, Rwandan genocide survivor; Trude Levi, Auschwitz survivor; Actor John Hurt, star of ‘Shooting Dogs’.) "It was incredibly [...]
After the killing stops, the consequence of genocide continues. Widows and orphans in remain disadvantaged eleven years later. We cannot turn back time and give these women and young people back the lives they once had, but we can at least try and restore their dignity. Aside from the important work to acknowledge and [...]
21 Feb 06 A Holocaust survivor and students at the Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire engaged in discussion with students and a Rwandan genocide survivor at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, through a live video-conferencing link. This was the first time that live video-conferencing of this kind has ever been set up between Rwanda and [...]
It’s been another busy and exciting term for Oxford Aegis Society: We kicked it off with the Hands Up For Darfur Day (03/02/07) at the Oxford Union in conjunction with Hands Up For Darfur. The event included a screening of Shooting Dogs, informational stalls for groups working in Sudan (like Kids for Kids, Medecins Sans [...]
Published in: THE INDEPENDENT, 2 April 2004 Byline: Declan Walsh RAGGED LABOURERS swarm across the Kigali hillside, surging around a white building which looms over the rows of tin-roofed houses. Young men balance metal beams on their shoulders; women carry bundles of bricks. A cacophony of grinding and sawing fills the air. English doctor James [...]
Alfred Ndahiro Contents Introduction The Immediate Aftermath of the 1994 Genocide Acheivements in Post-Genocide Rwanda Peace and security National Unity and Reconciliation Justice Accountability for genocide Prosecutions before ordinary courts Communal justice system (Gacaca) Health and Social affairs Accessibility to health services Education services Democratization Governance reforms Economic governance and reforms Empowering the [...]