Venuste Nshimiyimana
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Vénuste Nshimiyimana is a Rwandan-born British journalist and radio presenter for BBC. He is a presenter of the daily News TV bulletin programme (BBC Info) and the weekly news roundup for BBC Hebdo. He is a senior BBC team manager editorially responsible for BBC Afrique’s TV output. [1]
Early life
Vénuste was born in Gishamvu sector of Nyakizu district in Southern Province of Rwanda+ and attended Nyumba Primary school, then The Nyakibanda Major Seminary. A graduate of The Open University, where he received a Master's degree in social sciences, he also attended Anglia Ruskin University from 2016-2017, receiving a Master's degree in in marketing and studied at London School of Economics.[2]
Career
Vénuste began his career as a public information officer for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) working with the UN Special Representative to the Secretary-General (SRSG) and the UN army commander [3]. He later joined BBC in September 1997 and worked as Regional Planning Editor for BBC Africa. [4] Venuste, a multi-lingual[5] journalist, worked for diverse radio and TV teams across the BBC Africa department as editor, planning editor and senior journalist team manager. He covered various events such as the London Olympic Games in July 2012, Nelson Mandela’s funeral in December 2013 and the US presidential election Obama’s second term in 2012. He deployed the first BBC online reporter on a road show from Burundi to Rwanda. He also worked as Africa & Middle East Editorial Coordinator to change the narrative about Africa in the news coverage. [4] For the past 15 years, Nshimiyimana has covered the Middle East and has developed an interest in the area. He was in Iraq, reporting for the BBC, in the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in May 2003[6].
Vénuste gave a BBC interview with Jean Kambanda, the former Prime Minister in the caretaker government of Rwanda at the start of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the first person convicted under the 1948 Genocide Convention since it came into effect in 1951 [7], currently jailed in Koulikoro Prison in Mali. This created a controversy between BBC and the government of Rwanda which lead to the closure of the Kinyarwanda/Kirundi programme “BBC Gahuzamiryango” coverage in Rwanda[8] [9] [10] [11].
Personal life
In April 1994, when the Rwandan genocide started, Vénuste, with a few members of his family, went across the capital city of Kigali to take refuge in the compound of a school known as ETO (Ecole technique officielle Don Bosco) hoping to escape the massacre. He witnessed how the UN peacekeepers, made up of Belgians, French and Italian soldiers, abandoned all the refugees to the mercy of the thugs Interahamwe while saving only those with foreign nationalities[12].
With his book, Prelude du genocide rwandais, Enquête sur les circonstances politiques et militaires du meurtre du président Habyarimana[13] (Prelude to Rwandan genocide, investigation into the political and military circumstances of the murder of President Habyarimana), Vénuste became the first writer to establish a relation between the assassination of President Habyarimana and the 1994 genocide against Tutsi and moderate Hutus. Vénuste's goal, in his book, was to provide facts that help better understand the immediate political environment that preceded the Rwandan tragedy. While question marks inevitably remain, his investigation contributed to a better understanding of this crucial period in Rwanda's history [3].
Vénuste was among the 40 participants of the conference table, International Decision-Making in the Age of Genocide: Rwanda 1990-1994 Conference in The Hague, June 1 – June 3, 2014[14], including former members of the United Nations Security Council, the leadership of UNAMIR, diplomats stationed in Kigali, the architects of the Arusha peace accords, NGO representatives, journalists and scholars. The conference focused on the breakdown in the accords and the failure of the international community to either prevent the genocide or protect hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians once the mass killing started in April 1994 [15] [16]
References
- ^ Nshimiyimana, Venuste. "Venuste Nshimiyimana". Muck Rack. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ Everipedia. "Venuste Nshimiyimana". Everipedia, Inc. Everipedia International. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ a b Braeckman, Colette (4 June 2007). "Rwanda: l'attaché de presse de la MINUAR se souvient de tout". Le Soir.be. Le carnet de Colette Braeckman. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Venuste Alexandre Nshimiyimana". LinkedIn. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ Eggert, Nalina. "Where speaking several languages is a given". BBC News World. BBC. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ Nshimiyimana, Venuste Alexandre. "Does Trump Want A Fight With Iran Over Nukes?". Linkedin. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ McReal, Chris (5 September 1998). "Kambanda gets life in prison for genocide". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ Rwanda News Agency. "Rwanda: Campaigner Accuses BBC of 'Deliberate' Genocide Negationism". AllAfrica.
- ^ "Rwanda: Campaigner Accuses BBC of 'Deliberate' Genocide Negationism". Balancing Act. Broadcast EN. 1 May 2008. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ Fagiolo, Nicoletta (17 December 2014). "Rwanda's Untold Story. A Commentary on the BBC Two Documentary". Reset DOC. Analysis. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ Rwanda Action Network. "ITV and BBC on Rwanda: Journalistic ethics on the cross". Medium. Medium. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ Nshimiyimana, Venuste Alexandre. "Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda: The United Nations Watched The Clouds Of The Murderous Storm Gather". LinkedIn. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ Nshimiyimana, Vénuste (1995). Prélude du génocide rwandais: Enquête sur les circonstances politiques et militaires du meurtre du président Habyarimana (Document) (1 ed.). Quorum. ISBN 9782930014630. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ Abramowitz, Michael (29 May 2014). "International Decision-Making in the Age of Genocide Rwanda 1990—1994". The National Security Archive. The George Washington University. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ "International Decision Making in the Age of Genocide: Rwanda 1990–94". The United States and the Holocaust. Simon-Skjodt Center. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ "International Decision-making in the Age of Genocide: Rwanda 1990-1994". The Hague Institute for Global Justice. The Hague. Retrieved 28 May 2019.