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Gacaca courts in Rwanda. Photo: Denis Bikesha, former director of training, mobilisation and sensibilisation for the gacaca courts in Rwanda after 1994.

“You cannot transplant the gacaca court system”

July 17th, 2024 will mark the 30th anniversary of the official end of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Denis Bikesha is a former director of training, mobilisation and sensibilisation for the gacaca courts in Rwanda after 1994. The associate professor of transitional justice at the University of Rwanda, author of “Dispensing Criminal Justice […]

By Thierry Cruvellier + Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro

Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye sentenced to 25 years in prison in Belgium for his part in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Photo: Nkunduwimye during his trial.

Belgium: Nkunduwimye sentenced to 25 years in prison for genocide

Reintegration and reconciliation of a former ‘genocidaire’ in Rwanda - Photo: Hamenyimana poses in his field in the village of Remera.

Pascal Hamenyimana and the timid reintegration of a former “génocidaire”

The Hotel des Mille Collines in Rwanda

Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial

Portrait of Assumpta Mugiraneza, co-founder and director of the IRIBA Centre for Multimedia Heritage (Kigali, Rwanda).

Assumpta Mugiraneza: “The policy of memory in Rwanda must be reinvented, renegotiated”

On October 26, 1992, Interahamwe militiamen and extremist MRND militants flooded into Kigali's Nyamirambo district to demonstrate their support for the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR). The placard read:

At Belgian trial, two former Interahamwe leaders dodge testifying

A man looks at the names of genocide victims at the Mount Rebero memorial in Kigali.

At Rebero, political remembrance of the genocide

Rwandan trial in Belgium - Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, the accused, drops defence of Georges Rutaganda, also accused of participating in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Photo: 2 portraits side by side.

Nkunduwimye drops defence of his friend Rutaganda

In memory of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, 30 years on. Photo: At the end of the commemorations, an elder leaves the Mayunzwe memorial and walks down the hill towards the village.

Mayunzwe remembers the "Calvary" of the Tutsis

Trial in Belgium of Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, accused of genocide in Rwanda. Photo: Nkunduwimye stares into the camera behind his discussing lawyers.

Belgian court to start new Rwandan genocide trial

Reconciliation after the genocide in Rwanda. Photo: Victims of the genocide discuss in the Rwandan hills.

Reconciliation made in Rwanda

Prisoners detained in Rwanda for genocide (known as

Rwanda: 2,200 “génocidaires” being released in 2024, who are they?

Portrait of Vincent Lurquin: lawyer specialising in international justice (practising in Belgium), with a particular focus on the crimes committed in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.

Vincent Lurquin: "having the humanity to defend someone accused of the worst crimes"

Rwandan Séraphin Twahirwa sentenced to life imprisonment in Belgium for his involvement in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

Belgium: life sentence, notably for rape, for a Rwandan

At a trial in France, a Rwandan doctor (Sosthene Munyemana) is convicted of taking part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Munyemana: a Rwandan doctor sentenced to 24 years in prison in France

Rwandan Séraphin Twahirwa and his two lawyers, Vincent Lurquin and Juliette Lurquin, at his trial in Belgium. He is on trial for his alleged involvement in the genocide in Rwanda.

"What judicial truth without material evidence?"

Séraphin Twahirwa at his trial in Belgium for genocide in Rwanda.

"They were founders of a ruthless militia in Kigali"

Highly diplomatic transfer of Fulgence Kayishema from South Africa - Photo: Serge Brammertz speaks to the press.

What's happening in the Kayishema case?

Séraphin Twahirwa goes on trial in Belgium for his alleged role in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

"There was no roadblock, there wasn’t the space"