KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the East African nation's most horrific period in history — the genocide against its minority Tutsi. To this day, new mass graves ...
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 ...
HUYE, Rwanda (AP) — The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for — and often finding — human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn ...
April 7 marks the U.N. International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It was established to remember members of the Tutsi community, an African ethnic group, who ...
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 ...
Growing up in Kigali, Rwanda, we were the only Tutsi family on the street. I was the youngest of six children and we had a pretty decent life. My mom owned her own business and my dad worked for the ...
BUGESERA, Rwanda (AP) — Anastasie Nyirabashyitsi and Jeanette Mukabyagaju think of each other as dear friends. The women’s friendship was cemented one day in 2007, when Mukabyagaju, going somewhere, ...
The class of Rwandan teenagers stare back at him until, upon further prompting, one mumbles: "the massive killing of people." Teaching young people in Rwanda about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, ...
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 ...
More than 800,000 people were murdered when violence erupted. ROME -- Remembrance ceremonies began around the world this week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. For nearly 100 days ...
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When Belgium used ethnographic maps to annihilate the Tutsi in the Kivus
When talking about the origin of the ethnic conflict in eastern DR Congo – in the Kivus – many people fail to understand that it is a project born in Brussels. Most people don't realize, as Tom ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda is preparing to ...
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