With less than 2 months left, commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the genocide has become a worldwide cause. Communities and organizations across the globe are gearing up to  remember and memorialize the “preventable genocide”. We want dignity for the victims, understanding for the survivors, justice for the perpetrators, and accountability for the “bystanders”. Activities of various kinds and scale are being finalized at this hour: a march from American University to the Embassy of Rwanda is meant to catch the attention of drivers in the heart of Washington D.C. during the evening rush hour of March 25; General Romeo Dallaire will be testifying before the US Congress on April 22nd on how international institutions failed to act upon warnings of Rwanda in 1994; a slow and moving ballet-style dance will be performed in Los Angeles on April 7 to honor the women of Rwanda, victims of rape and murder, etc....

Complete information on Remembering Rwanda is available on our website, www.visiontv.ca/RememberRwanda/index.htm. Please check this site for new and finalized plans.

Volunteer International Coordinators:
Gerald Caplan caplang@rogers.com , Louise Mushikiwabo lmushikiwa@aol.com , Carole Ann Reed ca.reed@sympatico.ca

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In this report we draw attention to a number of recent developments [with apologies to those whom we inadvertently fail to mention]:

· A list of international contacts for RR10
· Rwanda asks for minute's silence for genocide.
· The Commemoration in Rwanda
· Plans for Belgium
· Plans for France
· Plans for Washington, DC
· RR10 Forum in London, March 27
· New Linda Melvern book on the conspiracy to launch the genocide
· New Anne Aghion documentary on Rwanda
· Pambazuka, a weekly electronic newsletter for social justice in Africa, promotes RR10
· National Public Radio RR10 documentary
· PBS /BBC RR10 documentary
· RR10 concerts
· Conference on the media and the genocide at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada

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RR10 Worldwide Contacts.

EUROPE

Belgium:
info@ibuka.net
Albert Gakumba:a_gakumba@hotmail.com
Aloys Kabanda:kabanda@hotmail.com

France:Espérance Brossard and Jean-Damascène Bizimana
Sarl.issaro@worldonline.fr and jbizimana@yahoo.fr

Alain Gauthier <mailto:AlnGAUTHIER@aol.com>AlnGAUTHIER@aol.com
Celeste Schenk <mailto:celestes@noos.fr>celestes@noos.fr
Vilizara Lazarova <vilizara@yahoo.com>
Switzerland: Gilbert Tchondo
Gtshondo@commercedeferfr.ch

Germany: Esther Mujawayo-Kiener
mujawayo@t-online.de

Netherlands: Marie Kagaju
marie@amahoro.org

Denmark: George Kalisa
willex4@hotmail.com

Sweden and Denmark
Prof. Eric Markusen <eka@diis.dk>

AFRICA

Kenya:Mary Balikungeri
balikungeri@yahoo.com

Ethiopia:Ambassador Pascal Ngoga
pascalngoga@hotmail.com

South Africa:Dennis Karangwa
karangwa@telcomsa.net

Joseph Mungarurire
witschem@webmail.co.za

Egypt:Phillibert Gakwenzire
gakwenzire@yahoo.fr

NORTH AMERICA

Washington, D.C.
Louise Mushikiwabo
lmushikiwa@aol.com

New York Area
Sonia Kayinamura
skayinamura@yahoo.com

Atlanta
Ntare Karitanyi
ntarek@hotmail.com

Parfait Nkubito
nkubitob@yahoo.com

Minnesota
Nicholas Songa
nicksonga@hotmail.com


Missouri
Bea Rangira Gallimore
GallimoreR@missouri.edu
Indiana/Michigan Area
Irene Zirimwabagabo
izirimwa@nd.edu

New England Area
Jean Nganji
nganji@hotmail.com
Chantal Kayitesi
ckayitesi@dhhs.state.nh.us

Los Angeles
Jackie Karuletwa
nshuti10@yahoo.com

Montreal
Jean-Paul Nyirinkwaya
jpnyilinkwaya@yahoo.com

Ottawa
Willy Rangira
rangira@hotmail.com
Oscar Gasana
ogasana@hotmail.com

Quebec City
Egide Karuranga
egidek@yahoo.fr

Toronto
Leo Kabalisa
leokabalisa@yahoo.ca
John Rukumbura
jvgrukumbura@yahoo.com
Carole Ann Reed
Ca.reed@sympaatico.ca

Vancouver
Lama Mugabo
mugabo@interchange.ubc.ca
Halifax
Susan Thompson
susan.thomson@ns.sympatico.ca>

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Rwanda asks for minute's silence for genocide.

By Finbarr O'Reilly
20 February 2004

(c) 2004 Reuters Limited

KIGALI, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Rwandan officials have asked countries around the world to hold a minute's silence at noon on April 7 to mark the 10th anniversary of the 1994 genocide.
"We would like the whole world to hold 10 minutes of silence - one minute for each year since 1994 - but some say that's too long," said Ildephonse Karengera, Rwanda's director of the genocide memorial.
"The most important thing is to have at least a minute of silence because people must remember what happened here," Karengera told Reuters in an interview in Kigali on Friday.
The tiny central African country was plunged into a frenzy of ethnic butchery that saw an average of 8,000 people killed each day in the months after a plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down over Kigali on April 6, 1994.
In all, about 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates were slain in about 100 days by Hutu extremists and their followers.
Scholars concluded that the killers - mostly civilians armed with machetes, garden hoes and spiked clubs and spurred on by hate propaganda - did their work five times faster than the gas chambers used by the Nazis in World War Two.
The lack of international response to the genocide was seen by many as a failure of the world community.
"The international community must bear its share of responsibility for this tragedy. We did not act quickly enough after the killing began," America's then-president Bill Clinton said in a speech during a visit to Rwanda in 1998.
April 7 has been designated by the United Nations as an "International Day of Reflection" for Rwanda, which will host a conference on the prevention of genocide and a week of memorial services.
About 20 heads of state, including U.S. President George W. Bush, are among dignitaries invited for the anniversary.
Memorial events on April 7 will include speeches and a march from downtown Kigali to the Gisozi genocide museum, where tens of thousands of skulls and skeletons are on display in glass cases and tombs in a valley below the hilly capital.
Karengera would not give the cost of the memorial services until the number of visiting dignitaries was confirmed.
He said the three-day conference on genocide would run from April 4 to 6 in Kigali and that various memorial events would continue until a closing ceremony on April 13.
The genocide was halted when Tutsi rebels overthrew the Hutu extremists, thousands of whom fled into the lawless jungles of neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. The rebels went on to form Rwanda's current government.

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From the Rwanda National Organizing Committee for the 10th anniversary

[Check their new website--- Rwanda10.org]

1994-2004 : 10th COMMEMORATION OF GENOCIDE OF THE TUTSI OF RWANDA

TO PREVENT AND BANISH GENOCIDE FOR EVER THANKS TO ACTIVE UNIVERSAL SOLIDARITY.

TEN YEARS LATER, HOW TO COMMEMORATE GENOCIDE
It is logical that in order to truly create this so much desired universal solidarity, the point of departure is universal commemoration.
The Africa Union has already passed a resolution calling for all members to commemorate the genocide of Tutsi in April 2004.
Similar resolution will shortly be voted by the United Nations General Assembly, calling upon the world nations to share together this important period of remembrance.
During the week from 07/04/2004 to 13/04/2004 , throughout the country, with the participation of leaders, researchers, friends of Rwanda and others from the four corners of the world, the Rwandans will organise:
1° Moments of meditation and actual commemoration;
At midday on 07/04/2004 ten minutes of silence will be observed throughout the country to commemorate the 10 years.
2° Cultural events: music, poetry, drama, films, art exhibitions etc, recalling the horror but also singing the victory of life over death and putting forward love and hope;
3° Visits to memorial sites and burial ceremonies of the remains of the victims;
4° Conferences and discussions essentially based on the theme of total prevention;
5° Awareness of the challenges of the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda and mobilization of conscientiousness and resources for supporting actions of the reconstruction of Rwandan society, by the development and preservation of memory, justice and restoration of social harmony, education for peace and respect for human rights, and assistance to destitute victims, notably the young, the sick, especially those suffering from Aids ,the disabled, the aged with no resources.
· Ceremonies along the same line will be organised throughout the entire world, by governments, anti –genocide associations, research centres, Rwandan ambassadors abroad, as well as the Rwandans in the diaspora.

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RWANDA

MOBILIZATION AND COMMUNICATION COMMISSION

TO PREVENT AND BANISH GENOCIDE BY ACTIVE UNIVERSAL SOLIDARITY

PROPOSED LIST OF ACTIVITIES OF TENTH COMMEMORATION
FROM 07/04/2004 TO 13/04/2004

0.International conference ( from 04 April to 06 April)

1. Commemoration Day (07April)

2. Visiting memorial sites/Permanent exhibition

Special sites : Nyanza : role of international Community Bisesero :resistance to genocide
Murambi : education and prevention

3. Launching of « Memory garden »

4. Permanent cultural activities:( will continue after 14/04/for 3 months)
v Films
v Drama
v Music
v Dances
Etc.

5. Inhumations of victims

6. Closing cultural evening( victory of life over death)

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RWANDA

MOBILISATION AND COMMUNICATION COMMISSION

PROPOSED PROGRAMME FOR 07/04/2004
1. AT GISOZI

0800AM-0900AM : Walking from Rond Point to Gisozi(officials, delegates, neighbouring inhabitants, families of victims).

09.00AM-11.00AM :
v Burying remains
v Honouring the dead
v Visiting Memorial

2. AT NATIONAL STADIUM ( the whole population)

0900AM-1100AM : getting seated

11.00AM-12NOON :

Speeches (Government, Ibuka, Delegates)
Testimonies

12NOON : 10’ of silence(10 years)

12.15PM : Speech by the President of the Republic

4.00PM-6.00PM :
Cultural activitiesv Musicv Poemv Testimonies
At the same time, at Nyanza :
Launching of the memory garden (officials, delegates, neighbouring inhabitants,
representatives of victims

6.00PM-10.00PM : Evening with :
v Testimonies, prayers
v Documentary films

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RWANDA

MOBILISATION AND COMMUNICATION COMMISSION

TO PREVENT AND BANISH GENOCIDE BY ACTIVE UNIVERSAL SOLIDARITY

PROPOSED ORGANISATION AND THEMES OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Day 0 :
· Opening ceremonies
1 · Official speeches

·Visiting memorials ; visiting surivivors
2 · Survivors Testimonies :Armenians, Jews, Rwandans

Day 1:20th century genocides (comperative studies)

1 Genocide :
· Roots
· Causes
· Mechanisms
· Consequences

National reconstruction challenges
v memory
v Truth/Justice/Reparation
v Survivors living conditions
v Social cohesion
v Economic reconstruction

2 Comparative situation after ten years of genocide
v Holocaust
v Rwanda
v Armenia

Day 2 : Genocide and the role of international community

Prevention and Intervention
v Mechanisms
v Political will
v Legal insturments
v Material and financial means


Involvement in reconstruction
v Justice
v Assistance to victims
v Memory
v Economy

2 Workshop-recommendations :


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* * RR10 Forum in London, March 27, 2004.

Please find attached a flyer for the Never Again, Imperial War Museum Rwanda Forum. Please feel free to pass it to your respective mailing lists. Booking lines are open. Hope to meet you there. Apologies for cross postings.

With best wishes

Poppy Sebag -Montefiore

Co-Chair
Never Again
poppy@neveragaininternational.org
+44 7968 043270

Never Again is a collaborative international network of young people who aim to provoke ideas and action for preventing conflict.

Never Again draws attention to the causes and effects of genocide and facilitates the exchange of ideas between those who have lived through conflict and those who wish to learn from them.

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** New Linda Melvern book.

Linda Melvern, author of “A People Betrayed: The role of the west in Rwanda’s genocide,” has now completed her 2nd book on the genocide. “CONSPIRACY TO MURDER” will be published by Verso at the beginning of April, almost at the moment the 10th anniversary begins.

A brief synopsis:

Conspiracy to Murder is the story of how this genocide was planned, how a concerted and systematic plan of murder was devised intended to kill as many people as quickly as possible. This book unravels the genocide conspiracy and explains how it had its genesis in a death squad. It reveals how the political, military and administrative leadership of Rwanda became involved in the plan. It shows how the conspirators aim was to completely exterminate the minority Tutsi and how their plan took three years to come to fruition. Using a vicious propaganda machine the conspirators programmed the population of Rwanda to kill. A network of roadblocks was devised in order to prevent any escape; civil-defense groups were established throughout the country, with eventually every third Hutu being armed; half a million machetes and other tools agricultural tools, and 85,000 tonnes’ worth of AK47s and grenades were imported into Rwanda and distributed country-wide in the year leading up to the genocide.

In an outstanding example of investigative journalism, Linda Melvern shows how the killers outmaneuvered the Security Council and led UN peacekeepers into a deadly trap; how the French military trained the killers and how their “humanitarian intervention” in June 1994 enabled many of the killers to escape justice; how the John Major government ignored warnings and then proceeded to mislead Parliament about what was really happening; how the US is still withholding wiretap and satellite evidence showing that the genocide had begun; and how significant was the knowledge of the then Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

Drawing on a vast range of new material gathered in Kigali, Paris, New York, Brussels and London and using interviews with those caught up in the genocide, this book provides a compelling account. The author has had exclusive access to a wealth of fresh documentary sources including an extraordinary collection of documents abandoned by the conspirators when they fled. In addition the author has consulted the closed UN archive on Rwanda. With the full confession of the prime minister in the government that presided over the genocide the book tells a remarkable story. Written for the tenth anniversary year, the book is a shocking indictment of those who knew what was happening and chose not to intervene. It makes the case for an urgent enquiry into the scandalous behavior of both the US and the UK in a crime that could and should have been prevented.

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** New Anne Aghion documentary

“In Rwanda we say… The family that does not speak dies.”
The film will begin showing at film festivals, on television and at commemoration events in March and April.

Synopsis

Around the world, preparations are now underway to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Since 1999, award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has traveled to rural Rwanda, to chart the impact of that country’s efforts at ethnic reconciliation. “In Rwanda we say… The family that does not speak dies” her second film on the subject, continues Aghion’s quest to learn how the human spirit survives a trauma as unfathomable as the 1994 genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi minority, which claimed 800,000 lives in 100 days. “In Rwanda we say…” is the next chapter in a fascinating and intimate look at how, and whether, people can overcome fear, hatred and deep emotional scars, to forge a common future after genocide.
Aghion’s influential 2002 film, Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda? captured the feelings of both survivors and alleged killers in the remote community of Ntongwe, just as the government was announcing the Gacaca (ga-CHA-cha), a new system of citizen-based justice intended to handle over 100,000 genocide suspects languishing in detention. “In Rwanda we say…” returns two years later as close to 16,000 of these suspects, still untried, are released across the country: having confessed to their crimes, and served the maximum sentence the Gacaca will eventually impose, suspects of appalling crimes are sent home to plow fields and fetch water alongside the people they are accused of victimizing.
“In Rwanda we say…” focuses on the release of one suspect, and the effect of his return on this tiny hillside hamlet. While the government’s message of a “united Rwandan family” infiltrates the language of the community, reactions to this imposed co-existence reel from numb acceptance to repressed rage. Violence seems to lurk just below the surface. What unfolds, however, is an astonishing testament to the liberating power of speech: little by little, people begin to talk in a profound and articulate way – first to the camera, and then to each other -- as these neighbors negotiate the emotional task of accepting life side by side.

Screenings:

March 29 at Visions DC in Washington
April 2 at The New School in New York
April 5 (both films) on Sundance Channel

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Commemorations in France

1. Ibuka

RWANDA : Dix ans aprËs le gÈnocide, que faire?

Entre avril et juillet 1994, au moment o? le monde commÈmorait bruyamment le 50Ëme anniversaire de la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale, les Tutsi du Rwanda Ètaient la cible d'une violence cruelle, d'attaques systÈmatiques et gÈnÈralisÈes, tendant ‡ la rÈalisation d'un plan effroyable : leur destruction totale. Plus d'un million de Rwandais, 95% de la population Tutsi, furent assassinÈs en l'espace de cent jours. Ces massacres sont maintenant reconnus par les Nations Unies pour ce qu'ils sont : Un gÈnocide. Le gÈnocide, ce crime odieux, Èpouvantable et monstrueux, que l'humanitÈ entiËre avait jurÈ, il y a plus de cinquante ans, qu'il ne se reproduirait plus.

Oui, ‡ la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale, les Nations Unies terrifiÈes par les horreurs commises par les Nazis, avaient dÈclarÈ "plus jamais Áa" au gÈnocide et aux crimes contre l'humanitÈ. Les jugements historiques de Nuremberg et de Tokyo permirent d'espÈrer que l'impunitÈ n'aurait plus droit de citÈ dans l'univers des humains. La preuve fut l'adoption, le 9 dÈcembre 1948, de la Convention pour la prÈvention et la rÈpression du crime de gÈnocide, laquelle impose ‡ tous les Etats l'obligation de prÈvenir le gÈnocide et d'en rÈprimer les auteurs. Le 12 ao°t 1949, quatre conventions dÈterminant les rËgles de protection des civils dans les conflits armÈs furent adoptÈes ‡ GenËve. Le 6 juin 1977, deux protocoles additionnels y furent ajoutÈs aux fins de mieux assurer aux populations civiles une protection efficace.

Bien d'autres conventions interdisant toutes les formes de torture ont vu le jour, et sont largement signÈes et ratifiÈes par les Etats. Cette diversitÈ non exhaustive de normes juridiques a pour objet l'Èlimination dÈfinitive du gÈnocide, des crimes contre l'humanitÈ et des crimes de guerre. Et pourtant, en 1994, pendant trois mois, l'ONU a laissÈ pÈrir plus d'un million de Rwandais, dans l'un des massacres les plus atroces du 20Ëme siËcle. Les Tutsi du Rwanda furent tuÈs pour ce qu'ils Ètaient : c'est le gÈnocide. Les Hutu qui luttaient pour un changement dÈmocratique ou qui ont protÈgÈ les victimes Tutsi ont ÈtÈ ‡ leur tour assassinÈs: c'est le crime contre l'humanitÈ. Et l'ONU le savait, et l'ONU Ètait prÈsent au Rwanda. Et l'ONU n'a rien fait! L'ONU a simplement demandÈ pardon au peuple rwandais plus de cinq ans aprËs les faits. Sans aucun programme d'indemnisation des victimes ou de rÈparation de leurs dommages.

Toutefois, le 8 novembre 1994, l'ONU a instaurÈ un Tribunal pÈnal international ad hoc chargÈ de juger les principaux auteurs de ces crimes. Avec un effectif de plus de 800 employÈs et un budget d'environ 90 millions d'euros, le bilan de cette juridiction est dÈplorable. Aucun des grands planificateurs du gÈnocide n'a ÈtÈ jugÈ. La plupart des cerveaux du gÈnocide circulent librement en toute impunitÈ et continuent de semer fiËrement le venin du nÈgationnisme. MÍme ici en France! Et le Tribunal est sommÈ par le Conseil de sÈcuritÈ de finir ses travaux en 2008. Il laissera une multitude de criminels impunis, voire des accusÈs non jugÈs.

La nÈcessitÈ de la mÈmoire, l'honneur indiscriminÈ d° ‡ toutes les victimes de la barbarie humaine, nous incitent ‡ lancer un vibrant appel pour le non-oubli des victimes rwandaises du gÈnocide. Le gÈnocide endeuille la conscience de l'humanitÈ. Il fait partie de notre histoire commune. Les souffrances endurÈes par les victimes et les survivants sont insoutenables. Outre le million de morts disparus, le Rwanda dispose de nombreuses victimes muettes, torturÈes, violÈes, laissÈes pour mortes, qui ont toujours besoin de líassistance. Notre association "IBUKA, MÈmoire et Justice" a pour objet de sauvegarder la mÈmoire de ce gÈnocide et d'apporter une aide variÈe aux survivants. Convaincus que ces victimes sont une partie de notre humanitÈ qui nous a ÈtÈ arrachÈe, nous souhaitons qu'elles ne soient pas oubliÈes. D'abord, elles ont trop souffert de crimes indicibles. Ensuite, elles sont trop nombreuses pour Ítre oubliÈes. L'avenir paisible des gÈnÈrations futures en dÈpend. LíannÈe 2004 correspond au dixiËme anniversaire de ce tragique gÈnocide. Cíest une douloureuse Èpreuve pour les survivants. Soyons forts et unis , líamour et la bontÈ humaine níont pas disparu sous les coups de bourreaux. Nous nous rÈjouissons de la rÈsolution N8 A/RES/58/234 votÈe par líAssemblÈe des Nations Unis en rapport avec la commÈmoration ; instituant le 7 avril de chaque annÈe , comme journÈe internationale de rÈflexion sur le gÈnocide des Tutsi au Rwanda. Cíest une dÈcision importante psychologique et Èducative. Nous lanÁons un appel ‡ tous les pays qui hÈbergent les Rwandais soupÁonnÈs díavoir commis le gÈnocide au Rwanda en 1994 ,de les traduire devant la justice.

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2. Collectif des Parties Civiles pour le Rwanda,
CommunautÈ Rwandaise de France,
Association Jardin de la MÈmoire,
American University of Paris

International Conference
4 mars 2004
10h00 ñ 21h00

Partie I. The Crime of Genocide

10h : Gasana NDOBA (jíattends encore son sujet)
10h30 : Georges BENSOUSSAN : La Shoah dans líhistoire : le gÈnocide au cúur du temps moderne
11h30 : Assumpta MUGIRANEZA : La dynamique discursive de líidÈologie gÈnocidaire

12h-12h30 : Discussion 1.

Partie II. Law, Justice, Gacaca

14h : JoÎl KOTEK : le gÈnocide des Tutsi au Rwanda : un gÈnocide Èvitable
14h30 : Didier PATRY : Le TPIR (Tribunal PÈnal International pour le Rwanda) : sa vocation spÈcifique et ses limites
15h : Alain GAUTHIER : La poursuite des gÈnocidaires en France : le CPCR
Au Rwanda : les gacaca

15h30-16h : Discussion 2

Partie III. The Genocide

16h : projection du film de Luc de Heutsch : ´ Une rÈpublique devenue folle ª
17h30 : JosÈ KAGABO : Les racines historiques du gÈnocide

Partie IV. Remembrance and the RescapÈ

18h30 : EugËne MUTABAZI : IBUKA et la mÈmoire du gÈnocide des Tutsi.
19h : Bruce CLARKE : AJAM (Association pour un Jardin de la MÈmoire).
19h15 : Annick KAYITESI : paroles díune rescapÈe du gÈnocide.

19h30 : Closing Discussion

20h : mot de conclusion de líAmbassadeur du Rwanda ‡ Paris, son Excellence le Docteur Jacques BIHOZAGARA (síil le souhaite).

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WASHINGTON, DC REMEMBERING RWANDA WORKING GROUP
TENTATIVE COMMEMORATION ACTIVITIES

Contact: Howard Wolpe (hwolpe@aol.com) or Louise Mushikiwabo (lmushikiwa@aol.com)

SPONSORS AND PARTICIPANTS (TO DATE):
United States Holocaust Museum
The Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
Council on Foreign Relations
Refugees International
International Crisis Group
Center for Strategic International Studies
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Search for Common Ground
Fund for Peace
Amnesty International, USA
Embassy of Rwanda, Washington, D.C.
Many individuals, friends of Rwanda in the US

March 8th: Press conference to announce commemoration, at National Press Club, followed by a informational lunch on the Rwandan genocide with a selection of teachers from all over the U.S. attending the Close-Up Foundation monthly meeting

March 24: Premiere of excerpts from the new Frontline/BBC documentary tentatively titled “Ghosts of Rwanda” at the Holocaust Museum

March 26: American youth encounter with genocide survivors at Newseum Studio, moderated by Donatella Lorch of The New York Times, televised on C-SPAN that evening

March 29: Screening of Anne Aghion’s new film, “In Rwanda we say...”, a follow-up on her first film “Gacaca: Living Together Again in Rwanda”
At Visions Theatre

March 30: Panel on truth and reconciliation process at Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars

April 1st (tentative): Great Lakes Policy Forum special panel on impunity in central Africa

April 7th (tentative):
Ecumenical service at National Cathedral

American University (look for next update for more events):
April 7th : All-day program by the Washington School of Law and the International Students Association
April 8:Tree-of-the-future planting ceremony by Rwandan child at American University

April 21st: Panel on Judicial Accountability sponsored by Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.

April 21: (tentative) President Kagame talks at Woodrow Wilson Center

April 22nd : Congressional hearing with testimony by General Dallaire: Assessing institutional readiness, 10 years after Rwanda

April 27th: Panel on challenges of post-conflict reconstruction hosted by US Institute of Peace

May 3rd and 4th: “The Responsibility to Protect”: evening address at US Holocaust Museum (3rd)followed by a panel discussion (4th) at Woodrow Wilson Center

OTHER CONTEMPLATED EVENTS (during the 100 days of genocide, April to July):

Late May: A theatrical production at Arena Stage, to benefit AVEGA, the Rwandan genocide widows association. A monologue-style performance depicting the lives of Rwandan women who were raped during the genocide (script written by photojournalist and writer Kimberlee Acquaro in collaboration with writer and journalist Peter Landesman, based on Kimberlee Acquaro’s Rwanda photo essay, available on the site of the US Holocaust Museum (http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/kimberlee)

New York City program: Looking at Rwanda and South Africa, since 1994
Sponsored by Council on Foreign Relations

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National Public Radio in USA to produce major radio documentary.

From Michael Montgomery of NPR San Francisco :

"We are producing an hour-long radio documentary that will air on NPR affiliates beginning April 1. Segments from the special should also air on NPR magazine shows such as All Things Considered and Morning Edition. I anticipate NPR will provide additional coverage on shows such as Talk of the Nation. Our program explores two narratives: The West's abandonment of Rwanda at the outset of the genocide (as told by policy-makers, diplomats etc. and the Rwandans they left behind) and the remarkable efforts by individuals in Rwanda (our primary focus is Kigali) who saved countless lives. We are trying to emphasize the latter theme, as it belies arguments by Western policy makers that nothing could be done. It also challenges the unfortunate notion that the Rwandan genocide was an "tribal war" rather than a political programme that was carefully planned from the top.

This will be a major documentary that will receive considerable publicity via NPR and NPR affiliates. Minnesota Public Radio will be taking the lead (all our documentaries are available at <mip://03586a80/www.americanradioworks.org>www.americanradioworks.org). In addition, we will be producing a web site devoted to expanding the story with audio, video, photography, maps, etc."

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Concerts for the 10th anniversary.

The Center for Social responsibility out of Vermont is planning a world tour (including DC and other US cities)with 10th anniversary concerts by Jean-Paul Samputu, a well known young Rwandan artist who just won the 2003 Kora award at Sun City. More information to follow.

PBS to present 10th anniversary documentary.

GHOSTS OF RWANDA
Airs on PBS stations across the US on Thursday, April 1, at 9 P.M.

FRONTLINE marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide with a documentary chronicling one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. In addition to interviews with key government officials and diplomats, the two-hour documentary offers groundbreaking, eyewitness accounts of the genocide from those who experienced it firsthand: from Tutsi survivors who recount the horror of seeing their friends and family members slaughtered by neighbors and coworkers; to the diplomats on the scene who struggled to convey the severity of the crisis to their superiors in Washington; to the UN peacekeepers stationed amid the carnage who were ordered not to intervene. Through these accounts, FRONTLINE illustrates the social, political, and diplomatic failures that enabled the slaughter of 800,000 people to occur unabated and unchallenged by the global community.

“Ghosts of Rwanda” will be screened on March 24 at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC., as part of RR10 DC’s commemoration of the 10th anniversary.

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March 13 Ottawa Conference on the media and the genocide

Letter from Allan Thompson, Carleton University, Ottawa:
>
> I wanted to let you know that the School of Journalism and Communication at
> Carleton University in Ottawa is organizing a one-day symposium on March 13,
> 2004, called:
>
> The Media and the Rwanda Genocide.
>
> Lt.-Gen. (retired) Romeo Dallaire will make a keynote address and on the eve
> of the tenth anniversary of the genocide, this symposium will explore both
> the international media coverage of the genocide and the role played by
> domestic media in Rwanda, particularly the radio station RTLM. An
> international gathering of experts will discuss hate radio in Rwanda, the
> Rwanda tribunal’s “media trial, international media coverage of the 1994
> genocide and media intervention strategies.
>
> For more information and to find an online registration form, please visit
> the symposium website at:
>
> www.carleton.ca/mediagenocide
>
> I am organizing this event and will be acting as Symposium Chair so please
> feel free to contact me directly.
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Allan Thompson
> Assistant Professor
> School of Journalism and Communication
> Carleton University
> 613-520-2600 ext. 7439
> allan_thompson@carleton.ca

London, England, March 27. The Rwanda Forum

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From Ibuka, Belgium.

10è commemoration du genocide des Tutsi commis au Rwanda en 1994

N'oubliez pas que cela fut,
Non, ne l'oubliez pas:
Gravez ces mots dans votre coeur.
Pensez-y chez vous, dans la rue,
En vous couchant, en vous levant;
Répétez-les à vos enfants.
Ou que votre maison s'écroule,
Que la maladie vous accable,
Que vos enfants se détournent de vous.

Primo Levi, Si c'est un homme.

IBUKA apporte sa contribution à cette construction de la mémoire à travers les activités de la 10e commémoration auxquelles elle vous convie.

Soirée d'inauguration

Samedi, 21 février 2004
De 17h00 à 23h00

Lieu : Centre culturel de Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Avenue Charles Thielmans, 93
1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Accès : Bus 36, Tram 39 et 44; arrêt Chien Vert

PAF : 10 EUR (5 EUR pour les membres d'IBUKA)
Gratuit pour les enfants.

Au programme :

Mot d'accueil de Monsieur Serge de Patoul,
Député et Echevin, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre.

Allocution d'ouverture par le Président d'IBUKA.

Leçon inaugurale sur "Pourquoi commémorer? Les enjeux de la mémoire d'un génocide"
par Madame Anne-Marie Revcolevschi, Directrice générale de la Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.

Discours de Monsieur Hervé Hasquin,
Ministre-Président de la Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles.

Soirée culturelle rwandaise avec Ben Rutabana, Muyango et son groupe, et les troupes Ihanika, Ibirezi, Amarebe et Amaliza.

*Restauration légère africaine disponible

Programme général des autres activités

Vendredi, 19 mars 2004

Conference :
Thème : Dix ans après, le point sur les responsabilités de la Communauté internationale pendant et après le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda.
Lieu : Salle des Congrès, Sénat belge
Maison des Parlementaires
Rue de Louvain, 21
1000 Bruxelles

Samedi, 20 mars 2004

Conference :
Thème : Qualification sémantique, historique et juridique du génocide.
Lieu : Salle Dupreel
ULB - Campus du Solbosch
Avenue Jeanne, 44
1050 Bruxelles

Mercredi, 07 avril 2004 et Jeudi, 08 avril 2004

Marche du Souvenir
De la Place Royale au Palais de Justice
Soirée de la Mémoire
Au Centre culturel d'Auderghem
Boulevard du Souverain, 183
1160 Bruxelles
Veillée
Au Centre culturel d'Auderghem

Commémorations dans les sections locales :

Samedi, 17 avril 2004

Commémoration à Liège
Vernissage de l'exposition-photos aux "Territoires de la Mémoire", Liège

Samedi, 24 avril 2004

Commémoration à Louvain-la-Neuve

Samedi, 01 mai 2004

Commémoration à Namur

Samedi, 08 mai 2004

Commémoration à Bruxelles

Samedi, 25 septembre 2004

Fête d'anniversaire des 10 ans d'IBUKA-Mémoire et Justice

IBUKA-Mémoire et Justice est une association sans but lucratif fondée en août 1994, regroupant les survivants du génocide perpétré contre les Tutsi au Rwanda en 1994, les proches des victimes ainsi que toutes les personnes soucieuses de la mémoire des victimes et du sort des rescapés de ce génocide.

Vous pouvez soutenir ses actions en faisant un don sur le compte : 001-1549394-89

IBUKA - Mémoire et Justice asbl
Rue de la Prévoyance, 58
1000 Bruxelles
Tél/Fax : +32 (0)2 513 21 44
Email : info@ibuka.net
Website : www.ibuka.net

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