13 May 08 - Disturbing reports received by the Aegis Trust in the past 24 hours indicate that in addition to the beatings and detention of hundreds of Darfuri civilians in Khartoum following the recent rebel attack, some Darfuri residents – including men and women – have been shot by the security services, both [...]
12 Apr 08 – Survivors from Rwanda, Darfur and the Holocaust – now living in Nottingham, Derby, Coventry and other locations across the Midlands – gathered at the Holocaust Centre for an all-night vigil staged by the Aegis Trust on Saturday night, 12 April, to mark the 14th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan [...]
11 Apr 2008 - Shortly before 8.00pm local time on Thursday 10 April 2008, an unknown assailant threw a grenade into the gatehouse of the Kigali Memorial Centre, Rwanda's main site of remembrance for the victims of the 1994 genocide. 7-13 April is a week of mourning marking the 14th Annivesary of the start of [...]
27 Feb 08 - Today, on the first anniversary of the ICC's naming of Ahmad Harun and Ali Kushayb as suspects wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, 45 organizations throughout Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa have launched WantedForWarCrimes.org, a campaign which calls for the UN Security Council to [...]
13th Feb 2008 Yesterday at a Global Day of Action, Aegis Students joined protesters around the world and a group of Nobel Peace laureates to call on Chinese President Hu Jintao, the host of the Beijing Games, to uphold Olympic ideals by pressing Sudan to stop atrocities in Darfur. In London at a ceremony supported [...]
6 Feb 08- The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr Horst Kohler, paid a memorable visit to the Kigali Memorial Centre today. The President's visit allowed him to have a first-hand sense of the horrors of the past that led to the 1994 genocide in which up to one million innocent Tutsis and [...]
3rd-9th March 2008 On December 2nd 2007, actress and activist, Mia Farrow, launched Fund4Darfur, a new initiative of Aegis Trust to support survivors of the crisis in Darfur. From the 3rd to the 9th of March, a week of fundraising events will mark Fund4Darfur week, being held to raise money to support survivors of rape, [...]
This year Aegis Students is screening the powerful film “The Devil Came on Horseback” to thousands of students and other groups. We aim to reach over 40 locations and have received significant levels of interest; we are inviting all interested groups to screen the film. Award winning documentary film The Devil Came On Horseback exposes [...]
Kenya violence likely to escalate in absence of talks 3 Jan 08 – The Aegis Trust is deeply concerned at the violence being perpetrated in Kenya in the wake of the disputed presidential election. Men, women and children have been raped, burned alive, shot, or hacked to death with machetes. Hundreds of people have been [...]
13 Dec 07 – The Aegis Trust today released a short film about the Nanking massacre on the 70th anniversary of the fall of the city to the Japanese Imperial Army, 13 December 1937. Click here to view In a six-week period following the capture of Nanking, Japanese troops murdered around 300,000 unarmed PoWs and [...]