While Tutsi refugees gathered at the local government office in a desperate attempt to be spared during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Desire Munyaneza and his group of thugs would arrive daily, beating men and raping women, a witness testified Thursday through her tears at Canada’s first war crimes trial.
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It started as a dream more than 20 years ago, when the late Israel Asper’s close friend Pierre Elliot Trudeau was prime minister.
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A group of dedicated students from Grant MacEwan College is about to get a lot of blisters to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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SUE MONTGOMERY GAZETTE JUSTICE REPORTER Two days after Rwanda’s presidential plane was shot down in 1994, sparking a genocide that killed an estimated 800,000 people, Bosco Gasinya was found with his ears, nose and genitals cut off, his hair burned and his fingernails missing.
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Front-line international health workers appealed to MPs yesterday to fix the fact that not a single pill has left Canada under a 3-year-old program to provide cheap generic drugs to needy countries.
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Extraordinary measures have been taken to protect Desire Munyaneza, the man at the centre of a landmark war crimes trial, since he was beaten with a hotplate in prison last week by a 17-year-old. Yves Sainte-Marie, director of Riviere des Prairies detention centre, recited the prison’s actions in Quebec Superior Court Monday morning, after being …
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Bright red flowers drifted down the St. Lawrence River Saturday, following a mass and a march through city streets to remember the estimated 800,000 victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
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Montreal – A woman testified that she was raped four times by a man who is on trial in Canada for war crimes during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
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It’s the nauseating stench of her attackers’ semen mixed with fresh blood of the murdered that Athanasie Mukarwego can’t get out of her nostrils, even 13 years after the fact.
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The crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region raises a profound question: How does the world community respond to the spectre of genocide? One Canadian group — STAND Canada — believes it is time for Ottawa to take a leadership role in addressing Khartoum’s crimes against humanity.
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