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Felix Tshisekedi and Denis Sassou Nguesso (foreground) attend the funeral ceremony of Patrice Lumumba (large portrait in background).
11 July 2022 by Caleb Kazadi
Lumumba's tooth is returned, while still waiting for truth Patrice Emery Lumumba, "father of Congolese independence", was finally buried on June 30 in Kinshasa 61 years after his assassination- This came after former colonial power Belgium returned his tooth ten days earlier. But while th [...]
Technical draftsmen work on plans
23 March 2022 by Pierre Hazan
When business helped a genocide The German company Topf and Sons contributed to the efficiency of the gas chambers and the cremation of its victims in Nazi Germany. The former buildings of their headquarters are now the only museum in Germany dedicated to the cr [...]
3 Indonesian veterans (one crying) attend a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the war of independence against the Netherlands
10 March 2022 by Roel Frakking and Anne van Mourik
Dutch Colonial Violence and the Missing Voices of Indonesians The Dutch continue to widely underestimate their colonial violence of the past. The publication of the hard-hitting conclusions of the Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia 1945-1950-program revealed the Dutc [...]
Portrait of Lokman Slim
3 February 2022 by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
In Lebanon, the Lokman Slim Foundation will keep the memory of political assassinations The Lokman Slim Foundation was officially launched in Beirut on February 3 this year, exactly one year after the assassination of the Lebanese intellectual whose name it bears. This exceptional new research centre documents the nu [...]
Banknote (dated 1920) of one Belgian Franc on which is written
2 November 2021 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Colonial crimes: Experts recommend that Belgium compensate "Monetary payment of a colonial debt, in light of Belgium's moral responsibility". This is one of the strong recommendations in an expert report published on October 27. For a year, ten historians, jurists and political scientists [...]
Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in Algiers, surrounded by French and Algerian flags.
15 October 2021 by Pierre Hazan
France-Algeria: Having the courage to create a Truth and Memory Commission Sixty years after the massacre of Algerians demonstrating in Paris on October 17, 1961, for the independence of their country, French president Emmanuel Macron is expected to make a new gesture for remembrance. Macron has taken se [...]
14 September 2021 by Julia Crawford
Bosnia genocide denial ban stirs tension The outgoing UN High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s rare use of his executive powers to ban genocide denial is causing political waves, including threats of “dissolution” from the Serb leader of the joint presidency. [...]
Statue représentant Rumben Um
13 September 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Cameroon: Um Nyobè, a hero and symbol of French colonial crimes Exactly 63 years ago, on September 13, 1958, Ruben Um Nyobè was shot by the French army. Perpetrated in the context of a "secret war" that Paris has never recognized, the assassination of this nationalist activist is now mobilizin [...]
War scene in a children's drawing (helicopters, paratroopers, boats, fire...)
7 September 2021 by Justice Info
“When the planes came, the birds were afraid…”* PORTFOLIO - Children's drawings and mass violence. These drawn testimonies, free from the filter of adult judgment, seem to wi [...]
Soldier in front of Arch 22 in Banjul, Gambia
6 July 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Government and Truth Commission clash over Jammeh’s Arch The “Arch 22” is an imposing monument built by Gambia’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh to the glory of his “revolution”. The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission wants to make it a memorial to Jammeh’s victims. But the g [...]
Colonial Crimes: World map of justice initiatives
17 June 2021 by Clémentine Méténier
Colonial Crimes: World map of justice initiatives The colonial past is back in the spotlight in many countries, from New Zealand to France, Canada to Germany, or Sweden to the Netherlands. Official apologies, demands for reparations and restitution of cultural heritage, truth com [...]
Colonial crimes: a chess game to negotiate reparations, restitution, truth and the duty to remember
1 June 2021 by Justice Info
Hour of reckoning for colonial crimes The colonial past has come back into the spotlight. Descendants of the colonized are demanding reparations. Former colonial powers, as if suddenly waking up, under pressure from changing power relations, are finally showing some w [...]
Paul Kagame et Emmanuel Macron à Paris
17 May 2021 by André Guichaoua
In Rwanda, genocide commemorations are infused with political and diplomatic agendas Rwandan President Paul Kagame is visiting Paris this Monday and Tuesday, amidst a warming of diplomatic relations between the two countries. French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to visit Kigali the following week. In this [...]
Demonstration for
15 February 2021 by Nicolas Rocca
Seoul court decision reignites Japan-Korea war of memory A South Korean court has ordered Japan to compensate 12 sex slaves of the Japanese army during occupation of the country, just as the new US administration is urging appeasement between its two regional allies.  The court decision [...]
Instance générale des résistants, des martyrs et blessés de la révolution et des opérations terroristes
14 January 2021 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Wounded of the Revolution still struggle 10 years on Ten years after the Tunisian Revolution on January 14, 2011, the authorities still have not published the official list of wounded and martyrs of this event. About a dozen of them have been organizing a sit-in in Tunis since Decem [...]
14 September 2020 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: The Hall of Never Again sends out distress signals The Hall of Never Again is one of Colombia’s best known memorials. It was conceived by victims of the civil war in Granada, a town that has become an icon of reconstruction and resilience. But the recent damage caused by a water l [...]
26 June 2020 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Remembering Sadok Hichri Civil society paid tribute on 20 June to Sadok Hichri, one of the leaders of the Baath Arab Nationalist Party, who died 36 years ago. But in Bouarada, the small town where Hichri was born, the mayor still refuses to name a square [...]
14 May 2020 by Abraham Kouassi
Is Côte d’Ivoire’s Remembrance Day a move for reconciliation? Nine years after the violent crisis that shook Côte d’Ivoire, the country and its authorities are still dealing with the thorny issue of how to remember the victims. December 16 has been chosen as a Day of Remembrance, which seems [...]
30 March 2020 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisian President "can put dictatorship archives at centre of debate" In the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, Farah Hached founded Labo Democratique, an NGO whose aim is to help consolidate a "living and innovative" democracy. Managing the archives of the dictatorship is central for Hached, who [...]