Sir Richard Branson has personally donated a week for two on Necker Island to an auction benefitting the Aegis Trust. The once in a lifetime prize, which is to be taken during a celebration week, is to be introduced by Clive Owen at an exclusive event at Royal Windsor Racecourse on 10th October hosted by Heloise [...]
Jean Francois Gisimba with Clive Owen and Carl Wilkens This Autumn, I feel very privileged to be working with Carl Wilkens and Jean-Francois Gisimba, two personal heroes of mine. They, together with Jean-Francois’ brother Damas, were responsible for saving the lives of over 400 Tutsi and moderate Hutu during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Hundreds of [...]
25 May 11 - Tomorrow on Thursday 26 May, a genocide memorial will open at Murambi in southern Rwanda at a site where, in April 1994, approximately 50,000 Tutsi men, women and children were massacred by the Interahamwe militia and soldiers loyal to the government responsible for the genocide. Established by The National Commission for [...]
8 April 2011 - Wartime hero Denis Avey, who recounts how as a prisoner of war he twice broke into Auschwitz III and also helped to save the life of a Jewish inmate, last week launched his memoirs at The Holocaust Centre (home of the Aegis Trust) together with Rob Broomby, formerly the BBC’s Berlin [...]
16 Mar 11 - A Peruvian man, who has not been named, was arrested in Devon yesterday on suspicion of involvement in torture and crimes against humanity committed by government-backed death squads targeting guerrilla groups in Peru in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is the first person to be arrested since loopholes [...]
8 Mar 2011 - Following media reports that African mercenaries were used to suppress demonstrations in Libya, and particularly since the Sudanese Government claimed that Darfuri rebels were involved in the violence, fears have been growing among Darfuris in the UK for family and friends in the country. An estimated 500,000 Sudanese live in Libya, [...]
11 Jan 2011 - In today's Foreign Policy magazine the Aegis Trust and Frontier Economics write about their report The Cost of a Future Conflict in Sudan. Even as Southern Sudan votes in an independence referendum this week, the fear of war hasn't entirely faded away. The south is likely to vote to secede from [...]
9 Sep 2010 - Foreign Policy Article by the Aegis Trust's Head of Campaigns Nick Donovan The film Marathon Man is one of the great paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, infamous for the scene in which the Nazi dentist played by Lawrence Olivier drills through Dustin Hoffman's teeth into his live nerve below, repeatedly asking "Is it [...]
4 June 2010 - Rob Waugh of the Yorkshire Post has done a sterling job in using Freedom of Information requests to uncover the numbers of suspected war criminals who have been turned down on their application for British citizenship. The raw numbers are below. This is the first time that the Government has provided [...]
Following lobbying by the Aegis Trust, one party has pledged to pursue a specialist convention on Crimes Against Humanity. In its election manifesto the Labour party writes: "We will advocate a new international convention to enable the prosecution of perpetrators of genocide and crimes against humanity." A specialist crimes against humanity convention would, like the [...]