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Interviews with personnel from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Linda Melvern on a new study of who shot down Habyarimana's plane in 1994 for The Guardian

10 January 2012

Rwandan Radio Transcripts - transcripts from the broadcasts of RTLM, Radio Rwanda and Radio Muhabura dating from 1993 - 1994.

Kangura was a Kinyarwanda- and French-language magazine in Rwanda that served to stoke ethnic hatred in the run-up to the Rwandan Genocide. It was established in 1990, following the invasion of the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), and continued publishing up to the genocide. Sponsored by the dominant MRND party and edited by founder Hassan Ngeze, the magazine was a response to the RPF-sponsored Kanguka, adopting a similar informal style. "Kangura" was a Kinyarwanda word meaning "wake others up", as opposed to "Kanguka", which meant "wake up". The journal was based in Gisenyi. These files were generously donated by Allan Thompson, School of Journalism, Carleton University. (Please note that the files are in .PDF format)
Kangura Files

THE MUTSINZI REPORT
A Media Guide to the Committee of Experts Investigation of the April 6, 1994 Crash of President Habyarimana’s Dassault Falcon-50 Aircraft

Propaganda and Conflict: Theory and Evidence From the Rwandan Genocide
David Yanagizawa, IIES, Stockholm University November 21, 2009

Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation in Rwanda

The murders of two Rwandans 15 years ago today were captured on video, but the world turned a blind eye and a genocide ensued...

Frank Chalk's interview with New Times (Kigali), 30 March 2008

Penal Reform International is carrying out a British Government funded research project on the gacaca courts in Rwanda. For an exceptionally useful, analytically rich set of reports containing valuable interview transcripts, click here and scroll down to Gacaca Reports to view PRI's reports on the gacaca courts in Rwanda .

"Taking Stock of Change in Post-Genocide Rwanda" was an important conference held at the United States Institute for Peace on 18 November 2005. Several leading specialists on Rwanda-- Scott Straus, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Timothy Longman, Vassar College; and Rene Lemarchand, University of Florida--contributed to its examination of the Rwanda genocide and its aftermath. Gerald Gahima, formerly prosecutor general in Kigali, was the discussant.

Mugesera Decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, 28 June 2005, reversing lower court decision and opening the door to the deportation of Mugesera from Canada
Mugesera Decision of the Supreme Court of Canada

The Media and the Rwanda Genocide. Video tape and transcripts of this important conference featuring Gen. Romeo Dallaire and leading specialists (13 March 2004). In English and French.

Réseau Documentaire International sur la Région des Grands Lacs Africains contains a wealth of ephemeral material on Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo from about 1997 to 2003. Includes significant publications on the ICTR, political parties, universities, news events, NGOs, religious organizations, and international organizations dealing with the countries of the Great Lakes. Also available in French.
Great Lakes Documentation Network (Burundi, DRC, Rwanda)

Human Rights Watch: The Rwandan Genocide- How It was Prepared (Briefing paper).
The Rwandan Genocide- How It was Prepared

Belgian Senate Session of 1997-1998, December 6, 1997 Parliamentary commission of inquiry regarding the events in Rwanda. In French.
Fiche du dossier

Frontline Online web site for the PBS documentary Triumph of Evil: How the West Ignored Warnings of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide and Turned its Back on the Victims. Includes interviews, a chronology of US and UN actions in Rwanda, instructions on how to order tapes and transcripts of the documentary, etc.
Frontline: the triumph of evil

Human Rights Watch, Leave No One to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, 1999 report on the failure to prevent the Rwanda genocide.
Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda (Human Rights Watch Report, March 1999)

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: An overview of the indictement, case profile, judgement and sentence, etc of Ferdinand Nahimana, charged on the basis of his control over RTLM Radio during the Rwandan Genocide. Accessible by clicking on cases in the left-hand side menu, following the status of cases on the subsequent page and finding Nahimana under cases on appeal.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda- Nahimana case

Relief Web: Relief Web’s report on the country of Rwanda with the latest updates as well as the different sectors in need of help and key documents containing background information on the concerned country.
Relief Web (Rwanda)

Rwanda Information Exchange. "This is a forum and a network for the exchange of information...."
Rwanda Info Exchange

Samantha Power, "Bystanders to Genocide" The Atlantic Online The author's exclusive interviews with scores of the participants in the decision-making, together with her analysis of newly declassified documents, yield a chilling narrative of self-serving caution and flaccid will—and countless missed opportunities to mitigate a colossal crime
Bystanders to Genocide

United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

"The US and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: Evidence of Inaction." A National Security Archive Briefing Book, Edited by William Ferroggiaro, August 20, 2001.
The US and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994

The National Security Archive
The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: The Assassination of the Presidents and the Beginning of the "Apocalypse"

Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda
Frontline: Ghosts of rwanda | PBS

Frontline: Valentina's Nightmare. Tapes and Transcripts
Frontline: Tapes & Transcripts

Global Policy Forum (Rwanda): Global Policy Forum documents and articles relevant to the featured country, with up-to-date information.
Global Policy Forum-Rwanda

Report by the Steering Committee of the Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda
(March 1996). This is one of the first major reports on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis of Rwanda and its aftermath. Its emphasis is on lessons learned for the future work of NGOs and governments. Based on widespread interviews and documentary research, it was published in five parts, all of which are available on the web by clicking at:
The International Response to Conflict and Genocide: Lessons from the Rwanda Experience