April 7 marks 30 years since the start of a genocide that would see nearly 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus murdered in Rwanda. Scars on survivors' bodies remind Rwandans of the killings.
Under Rwandan law, it is a crime to deny, downplay or to attempt to justify the genocide, in which about 800,000 people were killed in 1994. Ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were ...
Our efforts are focused on bringing more people online ... one of many young employees at Netis Rwanda born after the Genocide against the Tutsi, emphasized the important role of youth in ...
The massacres saw more than 800,000 of Rwanda’s minority Tutsis and moderate ... and heard him encouraging militiamen to kill Tutsi people. “He wanted to incite them to kill us so we don ...
U.N. troops, in Rwanda under the terms of the peace ... like the prefect of the city of Kigali, ordered local people to establish barriers to catch Tutsi trying to flee and to organize search ...
The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President ... identity cards classifying people according to their ethnicity. The Belgians considered the Tutsis to be superior to the Hutus.
French authorities have ruled a Paris court can try a Rwandan Hutu shopkeeper alleged to have participated in the execution of Tutsi civilians in 1994 on genocide and crimes against humanity charges.
They are the lesser-known victims of Rwanda's genocide, 25 years after it happened. An estimated 800,000 people were killed in a little over three months when Hutus turned on their Tutsi neighbors ...
The Tutsis account for 14% and the Twa just 1% of Rwanda’s 14 million people. Kagame’s Tutsi-dominated government has outlawed any form of organization along ethnic lines, as part of efforts ...
The following year, the Rwandan Patriotic Front or RPF attacked and all Tutsis began to face serious persecution. Because of all this, I started to reflect deeply and asked different people the ...