Rwanda genocide

Rwandan genocide suspect jailed for life in Netherlands for 1994 war crimes

The defendant, identified only as Eugene N., had fled to the Netherlands in 1998 and later obtained Dutch nationality. Dutch prosecutors opened an investigation into him in 2020.

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People pray by a mass grave at Nyanza Genocide Memorial Center in Kigali, Rwanda on April 11, 2024.
US first lady Melania Trump presides over a United Nations Security Council meeting, at UN headquarters in New York City, US, March 2, 2026.

Trump, Netanyahu and the irony of Responsibility to Protect in Iran - opinion

Trump and Netanyahu may unintentionally act in line with the UN’s Responsibility to Protect principle.

|ByDAN PERRY
People displaced from El Fasher and other conflict-affected areas are settled in the newly established El-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah, in Sudan's Northern State, on Nov. 9, 2025. Tens of thousands were forced to flee after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of the city of El Fasher on Oct. 26

‘Never Again’ revisited: The Jewish community’s struggle to balance Darfur, Oct. 7 priorities

Today, six years after the end of al-Bashir’s reign and 14 years after the founding of South Sudan as an independent country, Darfur is again descending into chaos.

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Relatives assist a distressed victim of the genocide at a mass-grave site in Kigali

Police arrest Rwandan genocide leader on Long Island for immigration fraud

Throughout his applications for a green card and citizenship, he is accused of lying to immigration authorities by denying any involvement in the genocide, the government explained. 

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

30 years since Rwanda’s genocide, and reflections on October 7's atrocities - opinion

The Rwandan genocide, unique in its horrific scale and speed, resulted in the loss of between 800,000 to one million lives, in just 100 days.

APRIL 11, 2024ByNOAM BEDEIN
THE WRITER spends time with some Rwandan friends at the ‘Kwita Izina’ ceremony in September 2022. Rwanda’s recovery illustrated the nation’s remarkable transformation through unity and a profound connection to nature, the writer says.

Jordan's King Abdullah: Israel's 'brutal' war creates generation of Gaza orphans

While visiting Rwanda, Jordan's King Abdullah compared the Rwandan genocide to the conflict in Gaza.

JANUARY 8, 2024ByREUTERS
Jordan's King Abdullah II speaks during his visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, in this handout picture released on January 8, 2024.

Editor's Notes: Don't 'All Lives Matter' the Holocaust

The Holocaust was an event without parallel in human history and the Nazi drive to murder Jews was singular and obsessive.

APRIL 20, 2023ByAVI MAYER
A HOLOCAUST survivor lights a torch at Yad Vashem at the state ceremony marking the beginning of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance, on Monday night

Alleged senior leader of 1994 Rwandan genocide confirmed dead

He was alleged to have been a senior leader of the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi population.

MAY 12, 2022ByREUTERS
Rwanda Remembrance Day

A journey to Rwanda, land of a thousand hills

Rwanda is a small, landlocked country located in the heart of Africa, bordering Burundi, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

MARCH 26, 2022ByUDI SHAHAM
Fog covers the land of a thousand hills.

France's highest court upholds decision to drop Rwanda investigation

The assassination of politician Juvenal Habyarimana sparked 100 days of violence in Rwanda, mainly by Hutus against minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus, in which some 800,000 people were slaughtered.

FEBRUARY 15, 2022ByREUTERS
General view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

Rwandan genocide 'kingpin' Bagosora dies in Mali prison

Theoneste Bagosora was serving a 35-year sentence after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by the then International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021ByREUTERS
Rwanda Remembrance Day

Rwandan genocide suspect transferred to detention in The Hague

Kabuga, who was on the run for 22 years until his arrest in France in May, will soon be brought before a judge

OCTOBER 26, 2020ByREUTERS
International Criminal Court, The Hague

Rwandan ex-politician handed life jail term for genocide role

About 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus were killed during the genocide.

MAY 28, 2020ByREUTERS
UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Arusha, Tanzania

UN prosecutor: Remains of Rwandan war crimes suspect found in Congo

The remains of a fugitive major suspect in Rwanda's 1994 genocide have been identified in a grave in the Republic of the Congo, a United Nations war crimes prosecutor said on Friday.

MAY 22, 2020ByREUTERS
Readers look at a newspaper June 12, 2002 in Nairobi carrying the photograph of Rwandan Felicien Kabuga wanted by the United States. The United States published a "wanted" photograph in Kenyan newspapers of the businessman accused of helping finance the 1994 killings in Rwanda.