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- Vol 51 No 2
- 22/01/2010
Murder mystery solved
Two years of inquiries by a Rwandan committee of experts have ended in the conclusion widely accepted at the time: the Falcon 50 carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana was shot down on 6 April 1994 by Rwandan Hutu extremist soldiers and there was plen...
- Vol 50 No 24
- 04/12/2009
A botched prosecution
Protais Zigiranyirazo, brother-in-law of late Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, was acquitted on appeal by the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on 17 November (AC Vol 50 No 15). Anguished protests followed, from survivors, huma...
- Vol 50 No 15
- 24/07/2009
International justice and its pitfalls
The current array of international tribunals has its roots in the 1990s. With the Cold War over, a spate of atrocious wars broke out in areas that no longer fell under the control or influence of one or another superpower. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda ...
- Vol 50 No 14
- 10/07/2009
The quest for justice after the genocide continues
The search for justice lumbers on in a costly UN tribunal and national and community courts, but the convictions are relatively few
- Vol 50 No 14
- 10/07/2009
The missing suspects
Thirteen more genocide suspects are sought by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The United States government's offer of a US$5 million bounty for their arrest has so far helped to bring three suspects before the court, but the trail is gro...
- Vol 50 No 6
- 20/03/2009
Trouble in Kinshasa
President Joseph Kabila’s worsening rivalry with the Speaker of the National Assembly, Vital Kamerhe, is dividing the ruling Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et le Développement (PPRD), to which they both belong. Kamerhe’s latest offence is to have ...
- Vol 50 No 3
- 06/02/2009
Shotgun wedding
President Kabila's improbable deal with Rwanda could unravel and further weaken his authority in Kinshasa
- Vol 49 No 24
- 28/11/2008
Shooting down a president
Fourteen years after the murder of the two Presidents which triggered the genocide, France’s case against the nine accused looks very thin
- Vol 49 No 24
- 28/11/2008
Who arms Laurent Nkunda?
Congo-Kinshasa's Local Government Minister Mbusa Nyamwisi was running his own militia in the east a decade ago. Now he says it might be helpful for the Kinshasa government to open talks with General Laurent Nkunda on rounding up and expelling the Forc...
- Vol 49 No 21
- 17/10/2008
A one-sided election
The parliamentary elections were unconvincing but a bit better than the last ones
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