“Remembering Rwanda” 10th Anniversary Commemoration
Press Briefing to Launch 100 Days of Events

Washington, DC -- On March 8 from 10:15 – 11:00 a.m. at the National Press Club, international experts will hold a press briefing on the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide and the commemorative “Remembering Rwanda” events planned for the Washington, D.C. area during March, April and May.

Speakers will include:

• Ambassador Howard Wolpe, currently Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Africa Program and former Special Envoy to the Great Lakes region

• Louise Mushikiwabo, International Coordinator for Remembering Rwanda and author of King Solomon’s Crimes (forthcoming)

• Ambassador Joyce Leader, former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda.

Between April and July 1994, the Rwandan genocide saw the slaughter of close to one million Rwandan men, women and children and the exodus of hundreds of thousands more to neighboring countries. This event is being remembered in honor of those who died, and in the belief of the sponsoring organizations that only by understanding what happened in Rwanda in 1994 can the international community seek to prevent it happening again, in Rwanda or any other part of the world.

Speakers will address the events of 1994, recent developments in Rwanda and the region, and the events planned to commemorate the genocide. Key upcoming events include the premier of the Frontline film “Ghosts of Rwanda” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on March 24; the premier of the Sundance film “In Rwanda We Say…” by Anne Aghion at Visions Theater on March 29; an address by Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the Woodrow Wilson Center on April 21; and a Congressional hearing featuring former UN peacekeeping commander Romeo Dallaire on April 22.

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Notes to Editors:
Sponsoring organizations for Remembering Rwanda Events include:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; the Center for Strategic and International Studies; the Council on Foreign Relations; Refugees International; the International Crisis Group; the Fund for Peace; the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Search for Common Ground; the Center for American Progress; Citizens for Global Solutions; the United States Institute of Peace; and the Embassy of Rwanda.

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