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Café Littéraire | Art and Writing As a Form of Solidarity

A conversation with Jean-Marie Rurangwa, author of Le génocide des Tutsi expliqué à un étranger, Nocky Djedanoum, author of Nyamirambo! Poésies and Boubacar Boris Diop, author of Murambi, le livre des ossements, moderated by Chance Tubane.

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Ariane Inkesha

MC

WELCOME/INTRODUCTION

Dr Jean-Damascène Bizimana

Minister of National Unity and Civic Engagement

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Domitilla Mukantaganzwa

Rwanda Law Reform Commission (RLRC) Chairperson & Former Executive Secretary of National Gacaca Jurisdiction.

PANEL 1

DUTY OF JUSTICE AND PROTECTION OF TRUTH

Exchange between legal professionals and citizens who worked for justice at both international and local levels. From the ICTR to Gacaca courts, from public awareness campaigns against impunity.

Dr Doris Uwicyeza Picard

Coordinator of the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP)

PANELISTS

Domitilla Mukantaganzwa

Rwanda Law Reform Commission (RLRC) Chairperson & Former Executive Secretary of National Gacaca Jurisdiction.

Eric Gillet

Lawyer at the Brussels Bar and former member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues)

Karine Bourdié

Lawyer and member of the Non-Governmental Organistation SURVIE

Michèle Hirsch

Lawyer for the victims in the 6 genocide against the Tutsi trials in Belgium

Pierre Richard Prosper

Ambassador and former Prosecutor for war crimes at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Rokiya Omaar

Consultant and Researcher at the Non-Governmental Organisation African Right

Presentation

Patricia Bandora

Architect and Researcher Shares her study on the architecture of the ideology of genocide.

Patricia Bandora

Architect and Researcher Shares her study on the architecture of the ideology of genocide.

Exchange between journalists and writers who have braved isolation and opposition to tell the story of the Genocide against the Tutsi.

PANELISTS

Andrew Wallis

Journalist and Writer

Jean François Dupaquier

Journalist, Campaigner against Genocide denial, and advocate for memory preservation

Dele Olojede

Journalist (The 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning for his works on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi’s aftermath)

Boubacar Boris Diop

Writer

Jean-Damascène Gasanabo

Ambassador and former Prosecutor for war crimes at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Nocky Djedanoum

Director of Fest Africa / behind the “Rwanda; Writing as a Duty to Remember” Project

Yolande Mukagasana

Nurse, Anaesthetist, and Writer

BOOK LAUNCH

AVEGA collective book, written by Esther Mujawayo, Daniel Le Scornet.

Ariane Inkesha

Moderator: Ariane Inkesha

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