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Accessing Material from the Genocide Archive of Rwanda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Caroline Williamson
Caroline Williamson*
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Department of French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham
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In 1994 around 800,000 Rwandan people were killed in a hundred days of genocide. The Aegis Trust, a genocide education charity, began collecting testimonies from survivors in 2004 and, in partnership with Kigali City Council, established a national memorial site and archive, known as the Genocide Archive of Rwanda. In addition to the testimonies, this Archive now houses a wide range of materials such as footage of Gacaca court proceedings and annual remembrance ceremonies, maps, historical photographs, colonial documents, propaganda literature, identification cards and other official documents. To increase the accessibility of these archival materials, on 10 December 2010, the Genocide Archive of Rwanda launched its own website (http://www.genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw). providing members of the international community with an opportunity to explore the digital database. As yet, the digital archive contains only a small number of the testimonies that have been recorded.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 120 , 2012 , pp. 17 - 24
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Copyright © International African Institute 2012

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