January 2014

22 January

MIGS Press release: "Marking the Twenty Years since General Dallaire's Genocide Fax"

“Letter: The Rwandan Genocide”: Linda Melvern and Gregory Stanton reply to Michael Dobbs’s op-ed “Rwanda’s Shrouded Nightmare”, New York Times. MIGS’ director Frank Chalk signed the letter as well.

The full letter with the signatures is available here.

17 January

Senior deputy director Kyle Matthews has written an op-ed on Raoul Wallensberg's legacy titled “Raoul Wallenberg: A humanitarian hero we must never forget”, Globalnews.com

MIGS’s Distinguished Senior Fellow Lt-Gen Roméo Dallaire was mentioned in the New York Times in article titled “In South Sudan, Some Lessons of Rwanda Learned, Others Revisited” and in the United Press International,  “Child soldiers a warning sign for possible genocide”

15 January

MIGS’ Distinguished Senior Fellow Roméo Dallaire spoke to Radio-Canada at 8h20 on the commemoration of the Rwandan Genocide:  "20e anniversaire du génocide au Rwanda : Entrevue avec Roméo Dallaire"

UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson and Lt. Gen. The Hon. Roméo Dallaire participated in a panel discussion titled “Genocide: A Preventable Crime”

14 January 2014

Audio and Video of special event on “Understanding early warning of mass atrocities twenty years after the genocide in Rwanda – Press Conference” with MIGS' Distinguished Senior Fellow Sen. Roméo Dallaire. A summary Press Conference on Upcoming Event to Commemorate Rwanda Genocide is also available here.

10 January

Our colleague Simon Adams at the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect wrote an “Open Letter to All UN Member States Re: the 'Genocide Fax' and the 20th Commemoration of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.” Read it here.