Nairobi/Kigali - Rwanda Tuesday was opening a week of commemorations on the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the 1994 genocide, which saw 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus massacred.
The bloodshed began after Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down on the evening of April 6.
Within hours, Hutu militia began a pre-planned campaign to wipe out the Tutsis.
Kigali - At the agricultural research station in Songa, nestled in the hills of the Southern Huye province of Rwanda, hundreds of cows graze amidst soft breezes under the warm afternoon sun.
"This is where it all begins," Jean-Damascene Rwemalika, the director of research at the facility says, pointing to the hills behind him.
The herd is part of the Rwandan government's plan to rebuild the economy destroyed during the 1994 genocide, in which around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.
Kigali - It is a process that spans several continents, costs hundreds of millions of dollars and unfolds across several legal systems - prosecuting those responsible for Rwanda's genocide.
In 1994 the world stood aside as ethnic violence ripped through the small East African country.
At the end of the genocide, as many as 800,000 people were dead, a country was destroyed and tens of thousands of the killers had fled to safe havens across the globe in an attempt to escape justice and retribution.
Kigali - In the western Rwandan town of Gisenye, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, a small platform sits on the scenic Lake Kivu, barely visible from the shores of the burgeoning resort town.
A long tube runs out of the bottom of the platform, extracting the methane gas that saturates the water of the lake.
The gas is pumped to shore and converted to electricity in a newly constructed facility, which is then shipped to a country that only has six per cent of its inhabitants on its national grid.
Nairobi/Kigali - Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has been arrested in Rwanda after attempting to stand against a joint Rwandan-Congolese military operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the operation's commanders said Friday.
Almost 4,000 Rwandan troops on Tuesday entered DR Congo under an agreement with the Congolese government to hunt down Hutu rebel forces formed after the 1994 massacre in Rwanda.
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Thursday commended an international tribunal for its conviction and sentencing of a key player in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, former army colonel Theoneste Bagosora.
Bagosora and two other senior army officers were sentenced earlier Thursday to life in prison for their role in the massacre of more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus within the span of several months in 1994.
Nairobi/Kigali - Rwanda Tuesday was opening a week of commemorations on the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the 1994 genocide, which saw 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus massacred.
Kigali - At the agricultural research station in Songa, nestled in the hills of the Southern Huye province of Rwanda, hundreds of cows graze amidst soft breezes under the warm afternoon sun.
Kigali - It is a process that spans several continents, costs hundreds of millions of dollars and unfolds across several legal systems - prosecuting those responsible for Rwanda's genocide.
The gas is pumped to shore and converted to electricity in a newly constructed facility, which is then shipped to a country that only has six per cent of its inhabitants on its national grid.
Nairobi/Kigali - Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has been arrested in Rwanda after attempting to stand against a joint Rwandan-Congolese military operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the operation's commanders said Friday.
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Thursday commended an international tribunal for its conviction and sentencing of a key player in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, former army colonel Theoneste Bagosora.
