It was later repurposed as a prison, initially designed for around 400 inmates. Shockingly, this facility now crams up to 8,000 prisoners within. In Rwanda's Gitarama prison, one of the deadliest on ...

John Kabango Rucyahana stood facing a crowd of killers in a prison yard at Gitarama, Rwanda. Years earlier, during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Gitarama’s Hutu inmates would have hacked or clubbed to ...

A million people were ruthlessly murdered in Rwanda over three months starting on April 7, 1994. This happened in a fairly limited area but a generation later, Rwanda is one of Africa's most peaceful ...

National and local authorities in Rwanda have professed their commitment to the investigation and prosecution of genocide and post-genocide sexual violence. Many government officials we interviewed ...

SOUTHERN PROVINCE MUHANGA — Gitarama’s renowned automobile mechanic on Wednesday appeared before a Gacaca court in the area for his alleged role in the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis.

Inmates have been eat the dead to survive while also suffering from appalling medical conditions in the 'world's worst prison'. Gitarama Prison in Rwanda is reported to suffer from vast overcrowding, ...

GITARAMA, Rwanda -- Augustin Mbwabahatse is an illiterate Hutu peasant farmer. The father of eight is also about to become a judge, deciding the fate of some of the thousands of genocide suspects ...

Gitarama — Residents are again to benefit from 250,000 euros (about Frw 170 millions), donated by Frandre Orientare, a Belgian province, to support developmental activities in different districts of ...

SOUTHERN PROVINCE Thousands of orphans and street children in Gitarama spent a week long paying tribute to the late Margrit Fuchs, a Swiss national who supported vulnerable people in former Gitarama ...

GITARAMA, RWANDA - The limp of a crippled old man, the scars on a young woman’s face – the awful reminders are everywhere as Rwanda struggles to move away from its genocidal past by holding its first ...