The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
Gilbert Ramez Chagoury
Gilbert Ramez Chagoury (born 1946) is a Nigerian billionaire businessman, diplomat and philanthropist. Gilbert Chagoury was born to Lebanese immigrant parents in Lagos, Nigeria. He studied at the Collège des Frères Chrétiens in Lebanon before returning to Nigeria. He served as an Ambassador and Adviser to governments in Africa and the Americas. He has also served as Ambassador to the Vatican for St. Lucia, economic adviser to President Mathieu Kérékou of Benin, and ambassador to UNESCO.
Alain and Dafroza Gauthier
Alain and Dafroza Gauthier have spent the last 13 years hunting down people living in France suspected of participating in the Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Dafroza Gauthier’s mother and dozens of other relatives were among some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus who were killed in 100 days. In France, a wife-and-husband team has found their life’s work in helping to prosecute war crimes from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Through their organization, Alain and Dafroza Gauthier provide investigative research in hopes of bringing war criminals to justice.
Linda Melvern
Linda Melvern is a British investigative journalist. For several years she worked for The Sunday Times (UK), including on the investigative Insight Team. Since leaving the newspaper she has written six books of non-fiction and is widely published in the British press and academic journals. She is a former Honorary Professor of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in the Department of International Politics. Melvern is a world expert on the United Nations. For the past twenty years she has concentrated on the circumstances of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. She was the second vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. She has written many books on Rwanda, including `A People Betrayed. The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide’ (Zed Books, 2000).
John W. Dick
John W. Dick serves as the Non Executive Chairman at O3b Networks Ltd. Mr. Dick was a Non-Executive Chairman of Terracom Broadband and Rwandatel. He served as the Non-Executive Chairman of Hooper Industries Group, a privately held U.K. group consisting of: Hooper and Co (Coachbuilders) Ltd.
Dr. Paul E. Farmer
Dr. Paul E. Farmer is a co-founder of Partners in Health, which delivers medical services in Rwanda and Haiti. Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American anthropologist and physician who is best known for his humanitarian work providing suitable health care to rural and under-resourced areas in developing countries, beginning in Haiti. Co-founder of an international social justice and health organization, Partners In Health (PIH), he is known as “the man who would cure the world”, as described in the book Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. Farmer resides in Kigali, Rwanda as of 2008.[2][3] He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious disease. He is editor-in-chief of Health and Human Rights Journal.
