Rwanda under President Paul Kagame after his official swearing-in as the winner of the first post-genocide election in Rwanda.  

These materials from Rwanda Broadcasting Agency cover various topics ranging from the Rwandan history to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and its aftermath, and were donated by Rwanda Broadcasting Agency as a contribution to the Genocide Archive of Rwanda collections. For more information on the featured materials, please contact Rwanda Broadcasting Agency.  

 

 

Memorandum showing the differing, and in some cases conflicting, perspectives of the various players involved in responding to the crisis in Rwanda.  

Memorandum from Under Secretary of Defense for Policy to Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, National Security Council regarding the feasibility of countering hate radio in Rwanda. Undertaking an initiative to “jam” the radio, he says, would be “ineffective and expensive.  

 

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Engaging with the literature on visual representations of human suffering, being a witness, and trauma, this article discusses visual representations of the genocide perpetrated against Tutsi in 1994, and especially the art photography of the aftermath.  

Excerpt from Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report to U.S. officials, stating that several government officials, including the Prime Minister, numerous Tutsi civilians in Kigali, and 10 of the 450 Belgian UN troops have been killed in Rwanda.  

In this article Gavic Young talks about a risk of resurgence of a racial conflict in Rwanda, which had already created more than 100,000 refugees.  

The story told in this article published on 5 July 1973, is that the Rwanda army took over the government after months of tribal unrest between Hutu and Tutsi.  

 

Memorandum from Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research on intelligence report regarding the use of the genocide label, which finds “substantial, circumstantial evidence implicating senior Rwandan government and military officials in the widespread, systematic killing” of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.