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- André Sibomana (1954– 7 de març de 1998) va ser un capellà i periodista ruandès, figura exemplar en el genocidi de Ruanda. També va ser activista dels drets humans i fundador de l'Associació Ruandesa per a la Defensa dels Drets de la Persona i de les Llibertats Públiques, que registrava informació sobre totes les violacions dels drets humans a Ruanda i les publicava en un informe. Des de 1988 André Sibomana era editor del diari catòlic Kinyamateka, propietat de la Conferència Episcopal Ruandesa, que era l'únic diari privat que circulava a Ruanda àmpliament per les parròquies. Sibomana es va comprometre amb el veritable periodisme d'investigació, però va viure en un Estat que no garantia la llibertat d'informació. Des que ha publicat informes independents que han resultat incòmodes per les autoritats, ho ha intentat nombroses vegades el 1990, però en va obtenir les proves del que va publicar. Sibomana va ser una de les poques veus independents a Ruanda durant el període anterior al genocidi. Quan aquest va esclatar aviat es convertirà en objectiu dels extremistes. Va escapar de Kigali i va usar la seva posició per salvar la vida de molts altres. "Per a moltes persones a Ruanda, abstenir-se d'assassinar era, per si mateix, un acte de resistència". Nombrosos camperols foren assassinats perquè refusaren atacar els cossos dels seus veïns tutsis. Hi ha homes valents i rectes que no van poder o no es va atrevir a ajudar els seus companys i ara viure amb remordiments per no haver-ho fet. No tinc cap mèrit per salvar algunes persones, perquè estava en el meu poder fer-ho. La meva posició em va donar una oportunitat millor que a altres," s'explica Sibomana a la pàgina 86 de l'entrevista que va concedir a Laure Guibert i Hervé Deguine el 1996 a Israel, qui va ser publicat més tard. Després de la guerra, André Sibomana tornar a treballar com a editor de Kinyamateka i va donar suport a la reconciliació i fins a la seva mort el 1998. Va adoptar set orfes. En 2000 Sibomana va ser nomenat per l'Institut Internacional de Premsa com un dels 50 Herois mundials de la llibertat de premsa dels darrers 50 anys. (ca)
- André Sibomana (1954–1998) was a Rwandan priest and journalist and an exemplary figure in the Rwandan genocide. He was also a human rights activist and a founder of the Rwandan Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Person and of Public Liberties, which is there to record information on all human rights violations occurring in Rwanda and publish them in a report. From 1988 André Sibomana was editor of the Roman Catholic newspaper Kinyamateka, owned by the Episcopal Conference, which was the only private newspaper in Rwanda and circulated widely in the Rwandan parishes. Sibomana was committed to true investigative journalism, but he lived in a State that didn't guarantee freedom of information. Since he published independent reports that proved extremely embarrassing for the authorities, he was tried several times in 1990, but in vain as he had the proofs of what he published. Thus Sibomana was one of the few independent voices in Rwanda in the period leading up to the genocide. When the latter broke out, he realised he'd soon become a target of the extremists. He escaped from the capital Kigali and he used his position to save the lives of many others. "For many people in Rwanda, refraining from murder was, in itself, an act of resistance. Several peasant farmers were killed because they refused to strike the corpses of their Tutsi neighbours. There are courageous and upright men who were not able or did not dare to come to the aid of their fellows and now live with remorse for having failed to do so. There is no merit in my having rescued a few people, because it was in my power to do so. My position gave me a better chance than others," Sibomana explains on page 86 of the interview he gave to Laure Guibert and Hervé Deguine in 1996 in Israel, which was published later. After the war, André Sibomana returned to his job as editor of Kinyamateka and he supported reconciliation until he died in 1998. He adopted seven orphans. In 2000, Sibomana was named as one of the International Press Institute's 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the past 50 years. (en)
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