Who shot down President Habyarimana’s plane, triggering the 1994 genocide? A report by two French judges has definitively resolved one of the controversial mysteries of the late 20th century. Gerry Caplan considers the implications in the light also of the extradition of alleged genocidaire Leon Mugesera.
Two seemingly unrelated Rwandan stories made both history and the headlines last week. One was the dramatic finding by a French inquiry that members of the pre-genocide Hutu government and military must have shot down the plane carrying their President Juvenal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994, launching their planned genocide only hours later. (The President of Burundi was also a passenger on the ill-fated plane, as were other senior Rwandan officials.) The second was the decision of the Canadian government to deport to Rwanda at long last a man named Leon Mugesera, accused of inciting (...) Read more
Ex-foreign affairs minister Jean-Marie Ndagijimana, the man who oversaw the implementation of an ethnic-based recruitment system for civil (...) Read more
Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga takes on Mugesera’s imminent arrival, the Rwandan justice system coming of age and the resumption of Ingabire’s (...) Read more
African countries have been asked to commit substantial amounts of their budgets to finance hygiene and sanitation projects. Rwanda president Paul Kagame challenged his colleagues across the continent to stop relying on donor aid to fund this. He spoke as the Africasan three conferences came to a close.
