In the previous article in this series, we saw how a monarchy described as Tutsi-based was replaced with a Hutu-based republic. In both cases the Tutsi and Hutu masses were used by the elites and the ...
Josephine Dusabimana says she rescued 12 people during the Rwandan genocide. (Jacques Nkinzingabo for NPR) LAKE KIVU, Rwanda — To be clear, there is nothing funny about genocide. Which is why it is ...
In the past month alone, three people asked me if I was Hutu or Tutsi after I told them I was Rwandan. One of them was a white elderly man who was just walking by as I was chit chatting with friends ...
Marijke Verpoorten is affiliated with The University of Antwerp. This study was originally commissioned under the UNU-WIDER project Institutional legacies of violent conflict, from which it received ...
Villagers hid in a church in Rukara, Rwanda, in April 1994. Hutu militia surrounded the church and launched a series of attacks that lasted for days, killing hundreds. Hussein Longolongo killed seven ...
RUTSHURU, Congo (Reuters) - Hundreds of Congolese civilians fled east into neighboring Uganda on Wednesday to escape reported attacks on villages by Tutsi rebels who said they were hunting their ...
The nuns' soft voices are about the only sound that breaks the silence at the Benedictine abbey of Maredret, a haven of religious solitude deep in the Ardennes forest of southern Belgium. Among those ...
Thirty years ago, while he was hiding from the machetes that killed his father, two of his brothers and an estimated 800,000 other people during the genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi minority, Pascal ...
Christopher P. Davey receives funding from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and is a board member for Education for Global Peace. The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 has in complex ...
LAKE KIVU, Rwanda — To be clear, there is nothing funny about genocide. Which is why it is particularly disconcerting to hear Josephine Dusabimana laugh out loud, repeatedly, as she recounts the ...