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 ...
There are no pictures of Rwanda in his office. No reminders of his childhood. No photos of sisters or uncles or other extended family. The Hutus who killed Alexandre Kimenyi's relatives made sure they ...
A woman consoles Bizimana Emmanuel, 22, during the 20th anniversary commemoration of the 1994 genocide at Amahoro Stadium in Kigali, Rwanda, April 7, 2014. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images UPDATE: 10 p.m ...
Thirty years since the genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda, survivors Faina Iligoga and Aubert Ruzigandekwe plan to create a permanent documentation and healing centre in their adopted home of ...
The Africa Alliance partnered with the Rwandese Community Association of Maine and Ibuka Maine, a community of genocide survivors, to put together the daylong observance. April 7 was the International ...
Most of us might be accustomed to the 1994 Rwandan genocide popularized by the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda in which the shooting down of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was used as a signal to ...
Burundi and Rwanda threatened Tuesday to send soldiers into neighboring Congo to hunt down Hutu extremists responsible for slaughtering more than 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees at a U.N. camp in Burundi ...
Explore how Tutsi differ genetically from Hutu and their unique ancestry within Bantu-speaking populations in Africa. That’s an interesting possibility, but this admixture run didn’t split the ...
The genocidal civil war that took place in the East African nation of Rwanda in 1994, claiming the lives of some 800,000 people, has been well depicted in the popular film “Hotel Rwanda.” The cause of ...
Twenty-five years ago a terrible genocide took place in the heart of Africa — here is what happened back in 1994 THE Rwandan genocide was one of the most shocking events to have happened to humanity ...