Genocide

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said his country has decided to formally join the legal case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Speaking at a joint press conference in Ankara with his…

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame says he was concerned by what he saw as the failure of the United States to characterise the 1994 massacres as a genocide against the country’s minority Tutsis. His comments came after US Secretary of…

As Rwanda prepares to commemorate 30 years after the genocide that killed an estimated 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis, a transitional justice expert described the period between April to June 1994 as a dark time for the country.…

On the first of two days of legal arguments at the International Court of Justice, South Africa's Justice Minister presented his country's case against Israel whom they accuse of genocide in its war in Gaza. Justice Minister Ronald…

South Africa has filed a case against Israel for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice on Friday. According to the application submitted by South Africa, “acts and omissions by Israel, are…

A former Rwandan doctor has been jailed for 24 years by a French court for his involvement in the 1994 genocide. Sosthene Munyemana was on Wednesday found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and participation in a conspiracy to…

A Rwandan former gynaecologist went on trial in France on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 massacres in his home country, in an investigation stretching back nearly three decades. It is one of France's…

A Rwandan former police officer, Fulgence Kayishema, accused of playing a major role in the genocide in Rwanda and arrested last month near Cape Town after 22 years on the run, is to seek asylum in South Africa, his lawyer announced. "My…

Fulgence Kayishema appeared for a second time before a court, in Cape Town, South Africa. The former police officer is one of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda's genocide and is suspected of orchestrating the killing of some 2,000…

Rwanda commemorates the the 29th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis. This morning, as every year, an official ceremony, organized at the Gisozi National Memorial in Kigali, marks the beginning of the 100 days of…