United States President Joe Biden has made it known that he will announce student debt relief for millions of people and said he will do so during a meeting with the most important states, the swing states, in view of the presidential elections in November . His rival Donald Trump has meanwhile taken a clear position on abortion, raising doubts in some conservative circles, who however have reiterated their support for his electoral campaign by underlining how Trump is the “only Republican candidate” in the race, and therefore voted anyway. We talk about it with Alessia De Luca, journalist and ISPI manager for transatlantic relations. | France “could have stopped the genocide” of 1994 in Rwanda “with its Western and African allies”, but “it didn’t have the will”, said Emmanuel Macron. Words pronounced by the Elysée, which were then interpreted as a step forward in recognizing French responsibility in the Tutsi genocide committed 30 years ago in Rwanda. On the occasion of the anniversary last Sunday, however, Macron did not want to say the word “genocide”. According to some analysts, France, a faithful ally of the Rwandan regimes that planned and then carried out the genocide against the Tutsi, still finds it extremely difficult, thirty years after the events, to look at itself in the mirror. Furthermore, many of those responsible for the massacres have taken refuge in France since 1994: investigations into around thirty cases are still underway and so far only seven convictions have been issued. Today, again in France, there are those who are fighting to speed up the trials. In Rwanda, however, the “gacaca”, the traditional popular and community courts, proved to be tools that worked and made it possible to achieve restorative justice. We talk about it with Silvana Arbia, head of the chancellery of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, who worked until 2008 as a prosecutor and then chief of prosecutions at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. From this experience the book “While the world was watching” was born (Mondadori, 2011). At the microphones Anna Maria Giordano.
09 Apr 2024
