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No Justice at Home: Why Only an International Tribunal Can Hold Rwanda's Regime Accountable
Rwanda's domestic justice system is broken - controlled by the regime, it delivers predetermined verdicts against all opponents. Legal experts argue that only an international tribunal can deliver genuine accountability for the regime's crimes.
Landmark Investigation: Belgian Court Targets Rwandan Official for Torture - Breaking the Regime's Impunity
A Belgian court has opened an investigation into a Rwandan official over torture - a breakthrough that challenges the impunity of an oppressive regime that tortures detainees and hunts critics across borders.
Gacaca's Selective Justice: How Rwanda's Community Courts Shielded RPF Crimes from Accountability
Rwanda's gacaca courts delivered selective justice - prosecuting only crimes by one side while shielding RPF crimes from accountability. This was not reconciliation. It was politics dressed as justice by an oppressive regime.
Rwanda's Regime Owes Reparations: Justice Without Compensation Is Not Justice
Rwanda's regime owes reparations to its victims - political prisoners, torture survivors, families of the disappeared and assassinated. Justice without compensation is incomplete. An oppressive regime must pay for the suffering it has caused.
Justice Beyond Borders: Survivors Use Universal Jurisdiction to Pursue Rwanda's Oppressive Regime
Survivors of Rwanda's regime are using universal jurisdiction in European courts to seek justice that is impossible at home. This is a powerful tool against an oppressive regime that tortures, disappears and assassinates with impunity.
Rwanda: Cover-Up Negates Killings - Officials Threaten Victims' Families
A report by Rwanda's National Commission for Human Rights attempting to discredit Human Rights Watch documentation of extrajudicial killings is full of falsehoods, compounding the injustice suffered by victims' families, as officials threatened and coerced witnesses to present false information.
Rwanda Police Should Free Diane Rwigara and Her Family Immediately
Global Campaign for Rwandans' Human Rights is urging the Rwanda Police to release Diane Rwigara and members of her family immediately, after they were taken away and held at an undisclosed location.
Forced Disappearance Alert: Violette Uwamahoro
Ms Violette Uwamahoro, a British-Rwandan mother of two from Leeds, went missing in Kigali on 14 February 2017; we believe she may have been abducted and held at an undisclosed location by Rwandan intelligence services.
Ms Ndabarasa and Ms Iragena Still Missing
A Rwandan opposition activist, Illuminée Iragena, has been missing for six months and is feared to have been forcibly disappeared, while journalist John Ndabarasa was last seen on August 7, 2016; the cases are a test of the government's commitment to civil and political rights.
Has Ms Illumine Iragena Been Killed?
Following news announced by her family that Ms Illumine Iragena, who disappeared on 26 March 2016, was tortured and killed, we demand the Rwanda National Police confirm the information and resolve the mystery without delay.
Commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the massacres in Kibeho
Twenty years after the Kibeho massacre, in which nearly 8,000 displaced Hutu were killed by the Rwandan Patriotic Army in April 1995, its victims have still not received justice and the tragedy has been forgotten. We call for remembrance, independent investigations, and accountability for those responsible.