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April 5, 2019

The Rwandan genocide: Twenty-five years later

Leo Kabalisa tells the story of how 25 years ago he survived the Rwandan genocide. He was part of the launch of a book and a photo exhibition called And I Live On at the University of Toronto’s Hart House.

Just 25 years after Leo Kabalisa lost his parents, his brothers, his uncles, his aunts and most of his friends in 100 days of frenzied killing in Rwanda, he is seeing a rising tide of Rwandan genocide denial, justification, equivocation and outright amnesia.

Published in International
November 21, 2016

Rwandan bishops apologize for role in 1994 genocide

A man kneels in prayer during Mass at St. Famille Church in Kigali April 6, one day ahead of the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. An estimated 1 million people were murdered in acts of ethnic violence.

Roman Catholic bishops in Rwanda have issued an apology for the role played by individual clergy and church members in the 1994 genocide in which nearly 1 million ethnic Tutsis and Hutus were killed.

Published in International