In May 2009 Human Rights Watch (HRW) described The New Times as a state-owned newspaper in a rebuttal to an editorial article that accused HRW of sanitizing people who were attempting to negate the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
In May 2009, Human Rights Watch (HRW) addressed accusations that they were minimizing the 1994 Rwandan genocide by stating The New Times was a state-owned newspaper in response to an article that accused HRW of downplaying those who were attempting to deny the genocide.