| 单词 | Tutsi |
| 例句 | Four months after he took office, Ndadaye was assassinated by Tutsi radicals. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Generose, whose fair skin and narrow facial features marked her as a Tutsi, fled the city with her boys. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “I assume that by loyalists, they mean Tutsis?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Soon after his death was announced by radio, enraged Hutus took their revenge by killing scores of Tutsis. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “It’s not about Tutsis. It’s about access to the mines. These rebels have investors that want access to minerals.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As in Rwanda, a Tutsi minority ruled over a Hutu majority for decades. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Corpses clogged the streets, mainly those of loyalists to the dead president and anyone who looked like a Tutsi, the ethnic group historically opposed to the Hutus. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Most of the staff came from Tutsi families, so the atmosphere in the sanctuary was pretty grim. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Tutsis then used their control of the military to wipe out whole villages of Hutus. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They make the point that these identities, Tutsi and Hutu, were invented. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z There, in Goma, huge refugee camps were assembled and served by an enormous array of international agencies, while back in Rwanda, where Tutsi corpses filled rivers and lakes, aid was not so focused. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z A member of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Tutsi minority, Dogon fled the 1990s genocide as a child. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Do you have vivid memories of the Tutsi genocide? ArtsBeat: A Filmmaker?s Path From Rwanda to Tribeca 2011-04-20T12:08:33Z Your story in this week’s issue, “Cattle Praise Song,” begins with a long tribute to the central role that cows used to play in Tutsi culture in Rwanda. Scholastique Mukasonga on Tutsi Life and the Rwandan Genocide 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Royal tradition and colonial race science once afforded the Tutsi minority a superior place in Rwanda’s social hierarchy, but Mukasonga grew up in the aftermath of this illusory privilege. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z “You were a displaced little girl like me,” the story begins, “sent off to Nyamata for being a Tutsi.” New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z It is ostensibly the return to Rwanda of Raymond, a Tutsi who lost more than 40 family members in the massacres, that “Unexplored Interior” follows. Mosaic opens its inaugural curtain with “Unexplored Interior” 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z His filmic eye sorts out the people who populate the play: Tutsi elders; Hutu generals; thugs schooled in mass murder; mortified U.N. peacekeepers; corrupted government mouthpieces. Mosaic opens its inaugural curtain with “Unexplored Interior” 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Fearing Marxist radicalization among the Tutsi, they began to favor the Hutu. The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z As its final project, his class served as the crew on “Munyurangabo,” a feature about an unlikely friendship between two teenage boys: one Hutu, one Tutsi. A Director Returns to the Home He Longed to Leave 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z In 1959, tens of thousands of Tutsis fled to Uganda to escape killings. Photographer finds young Rwandans building a nation of peace 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z It begins when Kintu accidentally kills his adopted son and conceals the incident from the boy’s biological father, a Rwandan Tutsi living at the fringes of the community. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z More than 500,000 Rwandans, mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were killed in Rwanda's genocide. Hotel Rwanda manager faces terror-funding charges 2010-10-28T08:11:00Z Kagame's Tutsi rebels defeated the Hutu extremists after the 1994 genocide in which half a million people, mostly Tutsis and moderate Hutus, died. Rwanda president takes stage at Tribeca Film Fest 2010-04-27T11:23:00Z Tutsis were viewed as elegant, tall, educated, with land and cattle. Photographer finds young Rwandans building a nation of peace 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z People in the country rarely refer to themselves as Hutu or Tutsi and can face charges for speaking publicly about ethnicity. Hotel Rwanda manager faces terror-funding charges 2010-10-28T08:11:00Z Tutsi were thus set apart from the shorter, stouter Hutu farmers, who made up 85 percent of the populace. The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z “They aimed for her breasts, only her breasts. They wanted to tell us Tutsi women: ‘Don’t bear any children, because when you bring them into this world you’re giving them death. ‘The Barefoot Woman’ Keeps a Mother’s Memory Alive 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Twenty years after a genocide left an estimated 800,000 people, mostly Tutsi men, women and children, dead over a period of 100 days, Rwanda is on the rise. In Rwanda, Looking to Art to Soothe 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: Angel Diaz/ EFE/Corbis In July 1994 the Rwandan Patriotic Front, formed from Tutsi refugees based in Uganda, invaded Rwanda to put a stop to the genocide committed by Hutus on Tutsis. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z He does so while Ms. Mugambi speaks the words of an African mother, a Tutsi, whose Hutu husband killed, chopped up and cooked their children during the Rwandan genocide. Review: Belarus Free Theater’s ‘Trash Cuisine’ Serves Politics With Teeth 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The family were Tutsis, although that didn’t seem significant until the slaughter began. ‘I was reunited with my long-lost family on Oprah’ 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of Hutu were slaughtered by a Tutsi army, and thousands of others streamed into Rwanda, where tales of their persecution further radicalized the Hutu majority. The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z The United Nations — and the United States — failed to intervene in the attack on the Tutsi minority by Hutu militias. In Rwanda, mountain gorilla treks spur country’s renewal effort 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z In his analogy white Americans, who still comprise the majority of the United States' population by a wide margin, are the Tutsis – that African nation's ethnic minority. Tiffany Cross was too real for MSNBC 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The Europeans spun racial fantasies about the colonies’ two main ethnic groups, conjuring distant origins for the often tall and long-legged Tutsi, pastoralists who represented around 14 percent of the population. The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z She says her Tutsi father sent her to a Hutu neighbor who hid her and seven other women and girls in a tiny bathroom for three months. Genocide survivor, new citizen has message of hope 2013-04-17T17:27:12Z Premised on a European obsession with the Tutsis as a eugenically or even biblically chosen race of “Hamites,” it ultimately proved a curse. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The 1994 genocide was not the first time tensions between Hutus and Tutsis had erupted into violence. Photographer finds young Rwandans building a nation of peace 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z So how would she describe the humanitarian agencies that in her opinion enabled the continuation of the Hutus' genocidal attack on the Tutsis? Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z Threatened and marginalized, Tutsi began pouring into neighboring countries, especially Uganda. The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Some of the stereotypes of the Tutsis and Hutus go back to colonial times. Photographer finds young Rwandans building a nation of peace 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Early on, this corps of ethnic Tutsi soldiers in Uganda began plotting a return to power in their homeland, and in 1990 they invaded Rwanda. The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z For example, the finely woven Tutsi baskets above were made of plant fibers by high-ranking women in Burundi, between the 1920s and the 1950s. | Shows: Weaving by African Women at the Textile Museum 2011-10-12T22:46:32Z In the 100 days of slaughter that began on April 6, 1994, Hutu government soldiers and allied extremist militia orchestrated a genocide to destroy the Tutsi minority. Photographer finds young Rwandans building a nation of peace 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z In a later tale, we meet an uprooted Tutsi child who tries to organize memories of growing up in Nyamata into degrees of fear, ranging from “great fear” to “everyday fear.” New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z As ethnic hatred spills out across the border, the Bagogwe, who belong to the targeted Tutsi minority, are transformed into strangers in their own land. A Memoir of Post-Genocide Refugee Life Rendered With Delicacy and Insight 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z In the new novel, they involve gambling, a natty Rwandan Hutu gangster who lost one leg to the Tutsi, Chinese triads, money-laundering, human trafficking and a whole lot more. In ‘Righteous,’ a Stand-Up Sleuth Investigates His Brother’s Murder 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Jean Patrick, a Tutsi, needs a Hutu identity card to get through roadblocks; but as an Olympic hopeful, he is paraded to western aid-givers by the Tutsi-hating president as proof of reforms. Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron – review 2012-06-26T10:45:02Z First Gabriel asks his father whether the Hutus and Tutsis are at war on account of them not sharing the same land. A French-Rwandan Rap Star Turned Novelist From Burundi 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Eventually, after repeated warnings, in November 1996, the Rwandan Tutsi army invaded Goma and closed the camps, killing several thousand Hutus in the process. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z At the height of the war in 1993, Barankitse, a Tutsi, sheltered a group of Hutus at the Catholic diocese where she worked. My family came to the US as refugees, says George Clooney 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z “Unexplored Interior” filters the story of the wholesale slaughter of the Tutsis by Rwanda’s majority ethnic group, the Hutus, through a gallery of characters Western and African. Act II, Scene 1: H Street NE, Enter ARI ROTH with friends 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The Belgians strongly preferred the admission of Tutsi in modern schools and in the colonial administration. The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z If you were not aware of what those cockroaches were or that was the nickname for the Tutsis, you would wonder what kind of war they were talking about. ArtsBeat: A Filmmaker?s Path From Rwanda to Tribeca 2011-04-20T12:08:33Z The violence spills over to startling effect in neighboring Rwanda, where members of Gabriel’s Tutsi family are caught up in a blood bath. A French-Rwandan Rap Star Turned Novelist From Burundi 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z With Belgian approval, the newly empowered Hutu abolished the Tutsi monarchy, traditionally the most important political institution in the land. The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Mukasonga recounts these rituals — of sisterhood and maternity — because she yearns for them, but also because Tutsi women were targeted in the massacre — and explicitly for their life-giving powers. ‘The Barefoot Woman’ Keeps a Mother’s Memory Alive 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Where was America, wondered Hitchens, when Hutus were slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda? Christopher Hitchens’ last years: Islam, the Iraq war and how a man of the left found his moment by breaking with the left 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Scholastique Mukasonga is a Rwandan author whose story “Cattle Praise Song” depicts Tutsi life before and after the devastation of the Rwandan genocide. The Year in New Yorker Fiction Débuts 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z The Tutsis were called cockroaches by the Hutu? ArtsBeat: A Filmmaker?s Path From Rwanda to Tribeca 2011-04-20T12:08:33Z Mr Munyemana, who admits he had the key, said people from the Tutsi population sought refuge in the office, with his defence lawyer arguing he worked to prevent the genocide. Rwanda genocide: Former doctor on trial in France 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z In all more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu extremists, led by the Rwandan army and a militia known as the Interahamwe, in 100 days in 1994. U.N. prosecutor confirms death of Rwanda genocide fugitive 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z The Rwanda genocide sites comprise a series of hills where in 1994 an estimated 1 million people - Tutsi, but also moderate Hutu and Twa people - were killed by armed militias. World War One cemeteries, Rwanda genocide sites, Argentine torture center declared UNESCO World Heritage 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Kabuga, who was arrested in France in 2020 after years as a fugitive from justice, is accused of encouraging and bankrolling the mass killing of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority. Rwanda genocide survivors criticize UN court’s call to permanently halt elderly suspect’s trial 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Kabuga is accused of encouraging and bankrolling the mass killing of the Tutsi minority in Rwanda. Defendant in Rwanda Genocide Found Unfit to Stand Trial 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Leaders of the political opposition were murdered, and almost immediately, the slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus began. Rwanda genocide: Former doctor on trial in France 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Nyakirindo and her family are Tutsis, members of the Banyamulenge community from the southern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Seattle’s former INS building, a dance on immigration takes shape 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Kabuga is accused of encouraging and bankrolling the mass killing of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority. U.N. judges declare 88-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to stand trial because of dementia 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The wealthy businessman is also accused of using his radio station to urge Hutus to kill Tutsis, fuelling the genocide by broadcasting inflammatory hate speech. Félicien Kabuga: Rwanda genocide suspect unfit to stand trial, UN court rules 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Bands of Hutu extremists began slaughtering Tutsis and their perceived supporters, with help from the army, police force, and militias. Defendant in Rwanda Genocide Found Unfit to Stand Trial 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z By April 12, 1994, six days after the genocide against Tutsis by an extremist Hutu regime began, militia surrounded the church. Church massacre survivors laud arrest of Rwandan genocide suspect 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z When the Tutsi people became targets of genocide in the mid-1990s, Nyakirindo’s family was imprisoned, her father and brothers separated from the women and girls. In Seattle’s former INS building, a dance on immigration takes shape 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z At the opening of his trial in September, prosecution lawyer Rashid Rashid described Kabuga as an enthusiastic supporter of the Tutsi slaughter who armed, trained and encouraged murderous Hutu militias known as Interahamwe. U.N. judges declare 88-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to stand trial because of dementia 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z An estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and Hutu moderates were killed during Rwanda's genocide, orchestrated by an extremist Hutu regime and meticulously executed by local officials and ordinary citizens in the rigidly hierarchical society. Fulgence Kayishema: Rwanda genocide suspect appears in South African court 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z The M23 rebel group, largely made up of Congolese ethnic Tutsis, rose to prominence 10 years ago when its fighters seized Goma, eastern Congo’s largest city on the border with Rwanda. At least 60 bodies found in eastern Congo 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Hollywood actor Don Cheadle played Rusesabagina in the hit movie “Hotel Rwanda,” which was inspired by his experiences as a hotel manager protecting Tutsi guests from Hutu death squads. Rwanda frees Paul Rusesabagina, inspiration for ‘Hotel Rwanda,’ U.S. says 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Largely made up of Congolese army deserters, they first took up arms in 2009 accusing the government of marginalising the country's ethnic Tutsi minority and failing to honour previous peace accords. DR Congo's M23 ceasefire: Angola to deploy troops after failed truce 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Mr Kabuga, a wealthy businessman, is accused of using his radio station to urge ethnic Hutus to kill rival Tutsis. Félicien Kabuga: Rwanda genocide trial halted over dementia claims 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The Tutsi minority has long faced discrimination in Democratic Republic of Congo due to their ethnic link to Rwanda's Tutsi community. Congolese Tutsis describe violent campaign to stop them voting 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z The group, formed a decade ago, is responsible for several mass killings of civilians and claims to defend ethnic Tutsis living in Congo against Hutu militias. ‘Stop choking Africa,’ Pope Francis tells world on trip to DRC and S. Sudan 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The group says the government has not kept its promise to fully integrate Congolese Tutsis into the army and government. Explainer: What is driving the violence in eastern Congo? 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Rwanda also accuses Congo of supporting another rebel group that reportedly includes ethnic Hutus who participated in the genocide that killed more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them. Rwanda fires on Congo military aircraft accused of violation 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The M23 rebels are largely Congolese ethnic Tutsis who became prominent 10 years ago when their fighters seized Goma, eastern Congo’s largest city on the border with Rwanda. Eastern Congo’s M23 rebels retreat from occupied territory 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The M23 rebel group, largely comprised of Congolese ethnic Tutsis, rose to prominence 10 years ago when its fighters seized Goma, eastern Congo’s largest city on the border with Rwanda. ‘Tired of this war’: Congolese cope with M23 rebel violence 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z It says it is defending the interests of ethnic Tutsis living in DR Congo against Hutu militias and has been involved in a long-running conflict against the central government. DR Congo conflict: M23 rebels executed over 130 civilians - UN 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Many of the rebel fighters are Congolese ethnic Tutsis and Rwanda’s president is of Rwandan Tutsi descent. Talks begin on disarmament of rebel groups in eastern Congo 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z They also say they are fighting other eastern militias that they claim pose a threat to the Tutsi community. History repeats in Congo for families fleeing rebel violence 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z The M23, which was formed a decade ago, claims to defend the interests of ethnic Tutsis living in DR Congo against Hutu militias. DR Congo conflict: Why Kenyan troops are joining the battle 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z M23 has been a flashpoint for relations between Congo and Rwanda: Many of the M23 fighters are Congolese ethnic Tutsis and Rwanda’s president is of Rwandan Tutsi descent. Congo expels Rwandan ambassador after new rebel advance 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z The Pakistani military said they were linked to the Banyamulenge, a Tutsi community in the eastern province of South Kivu. Military: Gunmen kill Pakistani UN peacekeeper in east Congo 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z When formed more than a decade ago, M23 was fighting to protect the rights of Congo’s ethnic Tutsis. Talks begin on disarmament of rebel groups in eastern Congo 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z He is accused of being a financier and logistical backer of the groups that led the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi minority and moderate Hutus. Rwanda Genocide Tribunal’s Most Wanted Man Finally Faces Trial 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Prosecutors allege he was behind hateful messages against Tutsis, and funded and armed militias to kill them. Félicien Kabuga: Rwanda genocide suspect due to go on trial at The Hague 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Bands of Hutu extremists began slaughtering Tutsis and their perceived supporters, with help from the army, police, and militias. Trial of elderly Rwanda genocide suspect opening at UN court 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z In the days of brutal colonial rule, Belgian administrators had given control to Tutsi tribal chiefs, although Hutus constituted a majority of the population. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Rwandan authorities in turn accuse Congo of giving refuge to ethnic Hutu fighters who played roles in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide that killed ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Blinken in Rwanda to discuss Congo tensions, human rights 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi, is widely credited with stopping the genocide. UN experts: Rwandan forces operate with M23 rebels in Congo 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Prosecutors say Mr Kabuga controlled a radio station, which broadcast hateful messages describing Tutsis as cockroaches and encouraging ethnic Hutus to kill them. Félicien Kabuga: Rwanda genocide suspect due to go on trial at The Hague 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z He’s also accused of having paid for weapons, including machetes, used by militias to slaughter Tutsis and their perceived supporters. Trial of elderly Rwanda genocide suspect opening at UN court 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The Hutu majority began to slaughter the Tutsi minority and their Hutu supporters. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z But M23, which comprises mostly ethnic Tutsis from Congo, continues to hold its positions near the border with Uganda, keeping the spotlight on Rwanda. Blinken in Rwanda to discuss Congo tensions, human rights 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Congo has accused Rwanda of supporting the M23, mainly comprising Congolese Tutsis, which Rwanda has long denied. UN experts: Rwandan forces operate with M23 rebels in Congo 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The group was formed in 2012 claiming to defend the interests of Congolese Tutsis, the ethnic group shared by Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, against Hutu militias. U.N. experts say Rwanda has intervened militarily in eastern Congo 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z In some cases, the broadcaster provided locations of Tutsis so they could be hunted down and killed, according to the indictment. Trial of elderly Rwanda genocide suspect opening at UN court 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z M23 is made up mostly of ethnic Tutsi fighters from Congo who say their government hasn’t honored past commitments to reintegrate them into the national army. Tensions persist as Rwanda denies Congo rebel charges 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Rusesabagina, who achieved fame with the film “Hotel Rwanda” for sheltering ethnic Tutsis during the genocide, was a recipient of the U.S. Blinken in Rwanda to discuss Congo tensions, human rights 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z And Rwanda has accused Congo of supporting the FDLR, a Hutu rebel group opposed to Tutsi influence, which Kinshasa denies. UN experts: Rwandan forces operate with M23 rebels in Congo 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z And then there’s the March 23 Movement, or M23, which mostly consists of Tutsis, the same ethnic group as Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame. Why Is There So Much Turmoil in Eastern Congo? 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z In 1994, ethnic Hindu extremists slaughtered hundreds of thousands of members of the Tutsi community. Prince Charles and Camilla arrive in Rwanda for Commonwealth meeting 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z The rebel group’s forces consist mostly of Tutsis, the same ethnic group as President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, and U.N. experts have accused his government of extensively backing the group. Congo Closes Border With Rwanda After Soldier Is Killed in Gunfight 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The Rwandan government is also dominated by ethnic Tutsis. DR Congo soldier shot dead by Rwanda police 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Many of the M23 fighters are Congolese ethnic Tutsis and Rwanda’s president is of Rwandan Tutsi descent. Congo military accuses Rwanda of invasion; rebels seize town 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Among the Hutus were many genocidaires, those who had been responsible for killing millions of Tutsis. Why Is There So Much Turmoil in Eastern Congo? 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z The M23, a rebellion claiming to represent the interests of ethnic Tutsis in eastern Congo, is staging its largest offensive since a 2012-2013 insurrection that captured vast swaths of the countryside. World Digest: May 27, 2022 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z It was four years before the first conviction for genocide was handed down after the 1994 slaughter of the Tutsi minority in Rwanda. Ferocious Russian attacks spur accusations of genocide in Ukraine 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The M23 is largely an ethnic Tutsi group opposed to the Congolese government that started in 2012 and seized control of Goma for nearly a month. World Digest: May 26, 2022 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z In a statement late on Wednesday, Congo's government renewed accusations that Rwanda, which is led by President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi, was backing the M23. Heavy fighting as Congo tries to fend off resurgent M23 rebels 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z He was alleged to have been a senior leader of the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi population and was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2000. World Digest: May 14, 2022 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z In the immediate aftermath of the genocide - in which about 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by ethnic Hutu extremists in 100 days - he moved to Cameroon. Rwandan genocide fugitive Protais Mpiranya confirmed dead 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z After the massacres ended, with a Tutsi rebel group taking power, hundreds of thousands of people accused of involvement in the killings were detained. Rwanda genocide: 'I forgave my husband's killer - our children married' 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Only a few incidents have been defined as genocide by judicial bodies, the United Nations said, including the 1994 killings of the minority Tutsi in Rwanda. As leaders debate ‘genocide,’ a growing focus on atrocities in Ukraine 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z A spokesman for the M23 responded to a request for comment by sending a statement decrying what it described as incitement of hatred against Tutsis in Congo. Heavy fighting as Congo tries to fend off resurgent M23 rebels 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Rwanda happened because a hate-filled elite decided that the solution to the country's problems was to exterminate the Tutsi ethnic minority. Ukraine, the UN and history's greatest broken promise 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Over the next 30 years, its main ethnic groups, Hutus and Tutsis, often clashed. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Within hours, thousands of Hutus, indoctrinated by decades of hateful propaganda, began well organised killings - turning on their Tutsi neighbours around the country. Rwanda genocide: 'I forgave my husband's killer - our children married' 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z His killing sparked 100 days of violence in Rwanda, mainly by Hutus against minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus, in which some 800,000 people were slaughtered. France's highest court upholds decision to drop Rwanda investigation 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Burundi's history has been marked by eleven separate coups, mostly driven by the tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi communities. Sudan coup: Are military takeovers on the rise in Africa? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The genocide also brought to power Kagame, who has controlled Rwanda since he led a Tutsi army that quashed the mass killings. Prosecutors to challenge ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero’s 25-year prison sentence 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In the months that followed, Hutus slaughtered about 1 million Tutsis before Tutsi rebels put an end to the killings. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After Tutsi rebels led by Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s current president, ended the genocide, extremist Hutus fled into neighboring eastern Congo. UN urges leaders in central Africa to help end conflicts 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The majority of those killed were ethnic Tutsis, historically herdsmen and rich in cattle. At Rwanda’s Favorite Bars, Forget the Beer: Milk Is What’s on Tap 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Some Hutu men were reported to have slain their own Tutsi wives during the carnage. Théoneste Bagosora, Rwandan army officer convicted of genocide, dies at 80 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z When the president died in a plane crash, Bagosora took over the affairs of state and ordered the massacre of Tutsi, Donat Rutayisire, a genocide survivor who knew him, told The Associated Press. Theoneste Bagosora, architect of Rwanda genocide, dies at 80 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z In Rwanda, for example, fighting between Hutus and Tutsis—the two main ethnic groups—led to horrendous rights violations. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Rusesabagina turned the hotel into a haven for 1,268 Tutsis and moderate Hutus — using cash, alcohol and diplomacy to fend off the would-be killers. From Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda,’ to Dissident, to 25-Year Prison Sentence 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr Kagame, a Tutsi, led the forces that ended the slaughter and later went on to become president. Paul Rusesabagina: From Hotel Rwanda hero to convicted terrorist 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Although a minority of around 15 percent in Rwanda, the Tutsis had dominated politics for decades, especially after colonial Belgium granted the nation independence in 1962. Théoneste Bagosora, Rwandan army officer convicted of genocide, dies at 80 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z He was also found responsible for organized killings of Tutsi at numerous sites in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, and in Gisenyi in the west of the country. Theoneste Bagosora, architect of Rwanda genocide, dies at 80 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Rusesabagina used his fame to highlight what he described as rights violations by the government of Kagame, a Tutsi rebel commander who took power after his forces captured Kigali and halted the genocide. Rwanda court to rule on case of Rusesabagina, hero of 'Hotel Rwanda' 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z In it, he wrote that Mr. Kagame governed Rwanda “for the benefit of a small group of elite Tutsis,” and that the Central African nation had “a cosmetic democracy and a hollow system of justice.” From Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda,’ to Dissident, to 25-Year Prison Sentence 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z He was one of nine children from a Hutu father and a Tutsi mother. Paul Rusesabagina: From Hotel Rwanda hero to convicted terrorist 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The Belgians had long favored and supported the Tutsis. Théoneste Bagosora, Rwandan army officer convicted of genocide, dies at 80 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Rusesabagina was hailed as hero after he used his connections as the manager of a Kigali hotel to save ethnic Tutsis from slaughter during the genocide. Rwandan president removes justice minister amid 'Hotel Rwanda' hero trial 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z According to the newspaper, Mr. Abayisenga belonged to the Hutu ethnic group, whose leaders led the mass killings of mostly ethnic Tutsis in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Suspect in Fire at French Cathedral Is Arrested in Killing of a Priest 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z The invocation of Rwanda, of course, is a reference to the Rwandan genocide, when members of the Tutsi minority in that country were hunted down and mass-murdered. Filling the Trump void: Right-wing media's calls for violence grow louder 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z The movie shows how he used his connections as a hotel manager to save ethnic Tutsis fleeing slaughter by Hutus in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. 'Hotel Rwanda' hero never joined rebels, co-accused says 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The fact that the Belgians had introduced mandatory identity cards, including ethnicity, made it easy for Mr. Bagosora’s Hutu forces to pick out Tutsis in the spring and summer of 1994. Théoneste Bagosora, Rwandan army officer convicted of genocide, dies at 80 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z It also clinched something far rarer: a shared understanding by an African nation and a former colonial power of a historical crime — the genocide that led to the deaths of 800,000 ethnic Tutsis. In Rwanda, Macron Tries to Reset Relations With Africa 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z But his family members suffered reprisals or fled after power shifted to the Tutsis in the years after the end of the genocide. Suspect in Fire at French Cathedral Is Arrested in Killing of a Priest 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Macron then toured the memorial to the frenzied 1994 slaughter in which Hutu extremists killed mainly minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them. France’s Macron admits some guilt for Rwanda’s genocide 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z However, the report did absolve France of direct complicity in the killings of more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. France's Macron in Rwanda to reset ties as survivors expect apology 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z In just 100 days, 800,000 people would be killed by ethnic Hutu extremists targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin. Mental health: Trauma, genocide and my invisible illness 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z For Mr. Kagame and other Tutsi leaders, France had even greater responsibility because it had acted as the staunchest ally of the Hutu-led government responsible for the genocide. In Rwanda, Macron Tries to Reset Relations With Africa 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The Rwandan government in 2017 commissioned the Washington law firm Levy Firestone Muse to investigate France’s role in the genocide against the Tutsi. France Enabled 1994 Rwanda Genocide, Report Says 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Authors say they found “no evidence that French officials or personnel participated directly in the killing of Tutsi during that period.” Rwanda report blames France for ‘enabling’ the 1994 genocide 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z He added, “I find this defendant was actively involved, actively participated, in the mass killing of men, women and children simply because they were Tutsis.” US deports woman who lied about role in Rwandan genocide 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z But it cleared them of complicity in the slaughter that left over 800,000 people dead, mainly ethnic Tutsis and the Hutus who tried to protect them. France to open archive for period covering Rwandan genocide 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z However, the French commission cleared the country of any complicity in the slaughter that mainly targeted Rwanda’s Tutsi ethnic minority. Report clears France of complicity in 1994 Rwandan Genocide 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z “French officials armed, advised, trained, equipped, and protected the Rwandan government, heedless of the Habyarimana regime’s commitment to the dehumanization and, ultimately, the destruction and death of Tutsi in Rwanda,” the report said. France Enabled 1994 Rwanda Genocide, Report Says 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z From April to June 1994 ethnic Hutu extremists massacred Rwanda's minority Tutsi community and moderate Hutus. Rwanda genocide report to focus on French links 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Beatrice Munyenyezi, who a U.S. judge said “was actively involved” in the killing of Tutsis in Rwanda, was convicted and sentenced in 2013 in New Hampshire. US deports woman who lied about role in Rwandan genocide 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Yet as a hotelier he had made a point of cultivating influential customers, including a Hutu cohort of extremist military officers and politicians who despised the Tutsi. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z He is credited with saving 1,268 ethnic Tutsis and Hutus, and his story became the basis of the 2004 movie “Hotel Rwanda.” The ‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero Is on Trial. Here’s What We Know. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The report’s authors, however, found “no evidence that French officials or personnel participated directly in the killing of Tutsi during that period.” France Enabled 1994 Rwanda Genocide, Report Says 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z The movie shows how Rusesabagina, played by Don Cheadle, used his connections as a hotel manager to save ethnic Tutsis fleeing slaughter by Hutus. Trial of 'Hotel Rwanda hero' set to begin amid family's fears of injustice 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z In the United States, Munyenyezi was convicted of lying about her role as a commander of one of the notorious roadblocks where Tutsis were singled out for slaughter. US deports woman who lied about role in Rwandan genocide 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z His wife was Tutsi, and two of his brothers-in-law were guerrillas in the Rwandan Patriotic Front. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Hutu extremists were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community and any political opponents. Rugby bringing African communities together 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Three years ago, I visited a reconciliation community in Rwanda where Hutus and Tutsis live together. Opinion | Republican antics and rats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z They say the former tea and coffee tycoon also financed ethnic Hutu militias who killed hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda during a 100-day period in 1994. Rwandan genocide suspect Kabuga pleads not guilty at U.N. court 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Both were deemed to be high-ranking members of the Hutu militia party, which orchestrated the attacks on Tutsis. US deports woman who lied about role in Rwandan genocide 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z At one point, I stood beside a Tutsi family at a window and watched as a gang of Interahamwe trotted down the street, brandishing bloodstained machetes and clubs. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z He also is accused of instructing and assisting members of the so-called Interahamwe militia responsible for killing people identified as Tutsis in the Kigali, Kibuye and Gisenyi prefectures of Rwanda. Rwandan genocide suspect enters not guilty pleas at UN court 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Mugenzi is accused of drawing up a list of Tutsis to be killed. Rwandan official: Genocide suspect arrested in Netherlands 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z He allegedly armed and incited militias involved in the genocide when more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them were slaughtered. Rwandan genocide suspect sent to UN court in The Hague 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z He faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for allegedly equipping militias that killed more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them. UN judge orders Rwandan genocide suspect sent to The Hague 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Gersony’s report has been widely accepted, and its implications — summary killings by Tutsi government forces, tens of thousands of Hutu dead — are an outrage and a stain on Paul Kagame’s legacy. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Bands of Hutu extremists began slaughtering the Tutsi, with support from the army, police, and militias. Rwandan genocide suspect enters not guilty pleas at UN court 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The 71-year-old suspect is accused of playing a key role in the genocide in which over 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu extremists, authorities in Rwanda say. Rwandan official: Genocide suspect arrested in Netherlands 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z An estimated one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred in the genocide. Foreign lawyers for 'Hotel Rwanda' hero say they have been denied access to him 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z He is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity for equipping militias that killed more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them. Rwandan genocide suspect seeks transfer to The Hague 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z But as the Hutu came into power — the country achieved full independence in 1962 — its leaders promoted brutal discrimination against the Tutsi; hundreds of thousands fled the country. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z His case has attracted widespread international attention partly because his story of protecting Tutsi guests during the genocide was made into a popular Hollywood film. Family of 'Hotel Rwanda hero' calls on United States, EU and Belgium to help free him 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z He is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity for allegedly equipping militias that killed more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them. World Digest: Sept. 30, 2020 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z He also was notably accused of establishing the station Radio Television Mille Collines that broadcast vicious propaganda against the ethnic Tutsi minority, as well as training and equipping a militia that led the killing spree. French high court OKs extradition of Rwanda genocide suspect 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z He enjoyed worldwide acclaim after the Oscar-nominated film portrayed him using his connections with the Hutu elite to protect Tutsis fleeing slaughter. 'Hotel Rwanda' inspiration tells court he did not direct attacks 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z It has never been conclusively determined which faction carried out the assassination, but the attack set in motion a plot to exterminate the Tutsi. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Rusesabagina published a memoir, “An Ordinary Man,” that contained sharp criticisms of Mr. Kagame’s Rwanda — “A nation governed by and for the benefit of a small group of elite Tutsis,” he wrote. How the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ Fell Into a Vengeful Strongman’s Trap 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The 66-year-old former hotel manager was portrayed in the Oscar-nominated film “Hotel Rwanda” using his connections with the Hutu elite to protect Tutsis fleeing the slaughter. 'Hotel Rwanda' hero denied bail during terror trial 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Rusesabagina was played by Don Cheadle in ‘‘Hotel Rwanda,” which told of how Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, used his job and his connections with the Hutu elite to protect Tutsis fleeing the slaughter. World Digest: Sept. 1, 2020 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Thousands of Tutsis, crammed in and around the Nyamasheke Parish Catholic Church, fought for their lives for a week. 'I am a mother - I killed some children's parents' 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z By then, the desperate crowd in the hotel had reached about 500, including well-connected Tutsi and a few moderate Hutu. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z The prolonged dispute was largely a conflict between the country’s two primary ethnic groups, the Hutus and Tutsis. Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundian president who led authoritarian regime, dies at 55 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z The Church of England has reinstated a Rwandan bishop who left his role as a parish priest in Worcestershire after he was accused of complicity in the 1994 genocide of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis. Church welcomes back Rwandan bishop accused of defending genocide 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z He is accused of substantially participating in the planning, preparation and execution of the massacre of over 20,000 Tutsis at Cyahinda parish. Rwandan sentenced to life in prison for key role in genocide 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Just a few days later, two terrified Tutsi children, whose parents had just been butchered with machetes, knocked on her door asking for refuge. 'I am a mother - I killed some children's parents' 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Hutu hard-liners in exile began claiming that reprisal killings of Hutu equaled — or possibly exceeded — the murders of Tutsi but were covered up by the Kagame government. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Nkurunziza, whose mother was a Tutsi, identified with his politically prominent father’s group, the Hutus. Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundian president who led authoritarian regime, dies at 55 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Nearly 1 million people have been killed in 100 days, including about 70% of Rwanda’s Tutsis. Church welcomes back Rwandan bishop accused of defending genocide 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z According to the indictment, he addressed the surrounded Tutsis and told them to lay down their arms. Rwandan sentenced to life in prison for key role in genocide 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Although the identities of the assassins have never been established, Hutu extremists immediately accused Tutsi rebels of carrying out the attack. 'I am a mother - I killed some children's parents' 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Those inside owed their survival to one dynamic, he maintained: the fear of reprisal and the ever-present threat that the Tutsi rebels in the Rwandan Patriotic Front might execute their Hutu hostages. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z "Bizimana was alleged to be responsible for the murders of former Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana and 10 Belgian United Nations peacekeepers, and for the murder of Tutsi civilians" in five Rwandan regions, he said. Remains of top Rwandan genocide suspect discovered 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Ruhumuliza has previously denied accusations of complicity in the atrocities, endangering Tutsis and any involvement with distributing or requesting weapons. Church welcomes back Rwandan bishop accused of defending genocide 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Kabuga is accused of bankrolling and arming the ethnic Hutu militias that waged the 100-day killing spree against Rwanda’s Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Rwanda's most-wanted genocide suspect appears before French court 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z The wealthy businessman also was accused of establishing the station Radio Television Mille Collines that broadcast vicious propaganda against the ethnic Tutsi, as well as training and equipping the Interahamwe militia that led the slaughter. Top fugitive in Rwanda's genocide arrested outside Paris 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z The Tutsi government had complained that the camps were sanctuaries for Hutu guerrillas, and earlier that April, troops had moved in to shut down Kibeho and return people to their villages. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z They were ethnic Hutu extremists targeting members of the minority Tutsi community and their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin. Remains of top Rwandan genocide suspect discovered 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents. Rwanda genocide suspect Kabuga arrested in France 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z Paul Rusesabagina saves more than 1,200 Tutsi refugees from genocide by hiding them at his posh hotel in Rwanda’s capital city. Movies on TV this week, May 3 - 9: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z "It struck me that one of the reasons people feel they can't talk about their experiences is that on a national level people do not say 'Tutsi' and 'Hutu'," Chrystal says. Treating the trauma of Rwanda's genocide 26 years on 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z He estimated that the Tutsi death count could have been as low as 200,000. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the genocide, many saw the song as challenging the officially accepted version of what happened - that only Tutsis were killed. The gospel singer who died in a police cell 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Some Burundians say ethnic Tutsi families were massacred after his death. Largest mass graves uncovered in Burundi with 6,000 bodies 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Burundi’s population is divided between the Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups. Over 6,000 bodies found in Burundi's mass graves 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z “Before the war … Tutsi and Hutus lived in peace together,” she says. A new book by Karisa Keasey paints the powerful stories of Northwest refugees 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z He claimed that Tutsi fighters had infiltrated the Interahamwe militias and that some Hutu fighters “were not aware that they” — meaning the Interahamwe — were “working for” Kagame. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z "Not just victims of the genocide against the Tutsi, of which I am one. But also victims of other violence committed by the ruling RPF." The gospel singer who died in a police cell 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Burundi's politicians are accused turning the minority Tutsi and majority Hutu communities against each other. Burundi: More than 4,000 mass graves uncovered 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The mass slaughter of the Tutsi minority by Hutu extremists prompted a UN-backed intervention by the French military. Will Turkey’s ‘safe zone’ plan in Syria work? 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Over the span of 100 days, more than 70% of the Tutsi population in Rwanda was massacred, in addition to many Hutu civilians. A new book by Karisa Keasey paints the powerful stories of Northwest refugees 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z The Belgians put Tutsi overwhelmingly in charge of the country, which meant jobs in the bureaucracy, access to higher education and other privileges. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z In addition, cholera ravaged those refugee camps and Tutsis who had also fled the genocide were soon being attacked in Goma just as they had been in their native Rwanda. The forgotten trauma of a forgotten war 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z And there was one more thing: his uncle was a soldier with the Rwandan Patriotic Front - the Tutsi rebel army which took power in Rwanda, ending the genocide. The radio show which brought children back from the dead 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z A graphic novel notes that polarization tactics that led to the genocide included Tutsis being referred to as cockroaches, pointing out that the Nazis portrayed Jews as rats and poisonous mushrooms. Dallas Holocaust museum takes visitors from WWII to today 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z After steady repetition of this rhetoric, the river grew clogged with Tutsi bodies during the genocide. Words matter. Trump bears a responsibility for El Paso | Lynne Tirrell 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z In the early 1990s, Krueger served as the U.S. ambassador to Burundi, where a Tutsi military ruled over an oppressed Hutu majority and carried out several widespread massacres. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “It’s worth remembering that when a Rwandan politician described Rwanda’s Tutsi minority as ‘cockroaches’ it started a genocide that resulted in the deaths of upwards of one million people in that country.” World Reacts to El Paso Shooting and the Hate That Fueled It 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z During the Rwandan genocide, a Hutu leader compared the Tutsi to cockroaches. Trump's words are cruel, hateful – and infectious. We must resist | Francine Prose 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The sculpture on the mass murder of Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda in 1994 includes machetes and victims’ racial identification cards. Dallas Holocaust museum takes visitors from WWII to today 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z In Rwanda, a Hutu leader compared the Tutsi to cockroaches. US briefing: Democratic debate, Gilroy shooting and Trump vs Baltimore 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Rusesabagina, who trained in hotel management at the Kenya Utalii College in Nairobi, straddled Rwanda’s ethnic divide: His father, a farmer, was Hutu, and his mother was Tutsi. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z In Rwanda, Friedman said, people now speak of perpetrators and survivors, not Hutus and Tutsis. After fleeing war and genocide, Rwandan women find each other in South King County 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Rwanda is actively promoting tourism as part of its recovery from the genocide 25 years ago, in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed. 5 endangered black rhinos relocated from Europe to Rwanda 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z The vast majority of the victims of the genocide were from Rwanda’s Tutsi minority, though some Hutu moderates also died. Rwanda begins week of memorial events for genocide victims 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The presidency made the announcement as the Rwandan government started commemorations marking the 25th anniversary of the genocide against Tutsi and moderate Hutus, raising the curtain on a three-month remembrance period. France's Macron to declare April 7 as commemoration day of Rwandan... 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z “It’s the Rwandan government’s goal to say, ‘No Hutus were killed, only Tutsis,’” Endless told me. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z It’s been 25 years since the Rwandan genocide, when soldiers and citizens from the country’s Hutu majority killed more than 800,000 members of the Tutsi minority in the span of three months. After fleeing war and genocide, Rwandan women find each other in South King County 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z In just 100 days, between 7 April and 15 July 1994, seven in 10 Tutsis living in Rwanda were murdered by their Hutu neighbours. The big picture: the Rwandan Daughters project 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Hutu government soldiers and allied extremist militias orchestrated a campaign to exterminate the Tutsi minority. Rwanda begins week of memorial events for genocide victims 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Most were minority Tutsis, killed by ethnic Hutu extremists. Rwanda marks 25 years since genocide 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z “It’s creating a picture of Tutsi victims and Hutu oppression.” He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “When we commemorate the genocide, we only commemorate the Tutsi,” said Amani Ndahimana, 52, who lost most of his family in the genocide. 25 years after genocide, Rwanda commemorates those killed — but omits one group that was almost wiped out 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z He was killed by the extremists for trying to help Tutsis. The genocide orphans still searching for their names 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z "That is the last time I saw my father. He died with the rest of the family members the following days," Mukabyagaju, a Tutsi survivor, who is now 42, told the Associated Press. 25 years after genocide, can Rwanda heal? Six villages try 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z He will then lead a vigil at the Amahoro National Stadium, which was used by United Nations officials to try to protect Tutsis during the killings. Rwanda marks 25 years since genocide 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z “All those refugees who surrounded Kigali, who had been angry for four years, who had lost their family members, killed by the rebels — they started revenging on everyone,” Hutu and Tutsi alike, he said. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z A quarter century after the 1994 genocide that killed 75% of the country’s ethnic Tutsis, Rwanda has six “reconciliation villages” like Mbyo, where genocide survivors and perpetrators live alongside each other. 25 years after Rwanda genocide, survivors forgive killers 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Twenty-five years ago, on April 7, 1994, the dominant Hutus of Rwanda turned with well-planned violence on the Tutsi minority whom they held to be traitors. 25 Years Later, Rwanda Grapples With Legacy of Genocide and Questions of Blame 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z A quarter century after the 1994 genocide that killed 75% of the country's ethnic Tutsis, Rwanda has six "reconciliation villages" including Mbyo, where genocide survivors and perpetrators live alongside each other. 25 years after genocide, can Rwanda heal? Six villages try 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z In a well-organised campaign of slaughter, militias were given hit lists of Tutsi victims. Rwanda marks 25 years since genocide 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Prosecutors, citing witnesses, alleged that during the course of the genocide, Teganya led Hutu soldiers through the hospital to identify Tutsi patients who were then killed. Rwandan convicted of lying while seeking U.S. asylum after genocide 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z “The presidential guards from the military zone descended on the village, accusing all Tutsis, including children, of being behind the death of their president,” she recalls. 25 years after Rwanda genocide, survivors forgive killers 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Elite government forces, supported by a dreaded Hutu militia, the Interahamwe, which translates roughly as “those who work together,” rounded up and executed Tutsi military and political leaders. 25 Years Later, Rwanda Grapples With Legacy of Genocide and Questions of Blame 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z "The presidential guards from the military zone descended on the village, accusing all Tutsis, including children, of being behind the death of their president," she recalls. 25 years after genocide, can Rwanda heal? Six villages try 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Rwanda is this weekend marking the 25th anniversary of the start of the ethnic slaughter of some 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis. Macron calls for probe into French role in Rwanda genocide 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z He sought asylum in Canada, but officials concluded he took part in atrocities against Tutsis and, following years of litigation, ultimately ordered his removal from the country, prosecutors said. Rwandan convicted of lying while seeking U.S. asylum after genocide 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z “That is the last time I saw my father. He died with the rest of the family members the following days,” Mukabyagaju, a Tutsi survivor, who is now 42, told The Associated Press. 25 years after Rwanda genocide, survivors forgive killers 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z One hundred days later, when the killing finally stopped, the death toll stood at as many as one million, mostly Tutsis but also including some moderate Hutus who had opposed the bloodletting. 25 Years Later, Rwanda Grapples With Legacy of Genocide and Questions of Blame 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z "The Tutsis working at the church helped us with food, but soon they too were killed by the militia," she said. 25 years after genocide, can Rwanda heal? Six villages try 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z On the night of April 11, the killers swarmed among the neat rows of buildings and began systematically executing the predominantly Tutsi population with machetes, spears, clubs and guns. AP Was There: Only human wreckage left in Karubamba village 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Scores of thousands of terrified Tutsis fled Rwanda for neighboring countries including Congo, Tanzania and Uganda. AP Photos: 25 years ago, images exposed Rwanda’s genocide 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Shrill broadcasts in the government media incited the killings, portraying Tutsis as dangerous, bent on dominating Hutus. 25 years after Rwanda genocide, survivors forgive killers 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Roadblocks were thrown up to filter out Rwandans whose official ID tagged them as Tutsis — a distinction introduced in the 1930s by the Belgian colonial authorities. 25 Years Later, Rwanda Grapples With Legacy of Genocide and Questions of Blame 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z I told him it was true, that Hutu people killed Tutsi people.” Opinion | Rwanda’s Children of Rape Have Come of Age 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z According to Dutch prosecutors, Rwandan authorities accuse the suspect of summoning to the institute soldiers and militias who killed the Tutsis. Dutch police detain genocide suspect sought by Rwanda 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Before the Belgians arrived in Rwanda, for example, the distinction between Hutu and Tutsi was not as firm as it later became. Perspective | Pundits who decry ‘tribalism’ know nothing about real tribes 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “The Tutsis working at the church helped us with food, but soon they, too, were killed by the militia,” she said. 25 years after Rwanda genocide, survivors forgive killers 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Like their imperial German predecessors, Belgian officials had favored a Tutsi elite until the Hutu majority rose up in 1959. 25 Years Later, Rwanda Grapples With Legacy of Genocide and Questions of Blame 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z The Tutsi royal family was ousted and hundreds of thousands of Tutsis, running from Hutu persecution, settled in neighbouring countries. Rwanda’s Khashoggi: who killed the exiled spy chief? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z A judge accused Tutsi rebels, led by the current president, Paul Kagame, of the attack; arrest warrants were issued for a number of people close to him. France drops probe into 1994 Rwanda attack 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z The word “Tutsi” described the social status of an individual — someone rich in cattle, which were prized. Perspective | Pundits who decry ‘tribalism’ know nothing about real tribes 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The minority Tutsis were considered superior, and for this reason, given access to better jobs and educational opportunities by the colonialists. The 'witch' who protected a village from genocide 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z With the land ruined, crops untended and the population diminished by the killing of Tutsis and the subsequent flight of Hutu refugees into Congo, Rwanda entered a new, gradually prospering but ambiguous era. 25 Years Later, Rwanda Grapples With Legacy of Genocide and Questions of Blame 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z At the height of his power, Karegeya would unapologetically and aggressively defend Rwanda’s operations abroad, both military or covert, telling friends the Tutsi community’s very survival was at stake. Rwanda’s Khashoggi: who killed the exiled spy chief? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z His death sparked a civil war between the East African nation’s two dominant ethnic groups, the Hutu and Tutsi, in which an estimated 300,000 people died. Ex-Burundi leader rejects warrant for his arrest as tactic 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z In Rwanda, the Belgians redefined the relationship between the two groups, through legal pronouncements and administrative action, and even began to describe differences between Hutu and Tutsi not just in tribal terms but racial ones. Perspective | Pundits who decry ‘tribalism’ know nothing about real tribes 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z It sparked a civil war between the East African nation's two dominant ethnic groups, the Hutu and Tutsi, in which an estimated 300,000 people died. Burundi issues arrest warrants around 1993 assassination 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z It sparked a civil war between the East African nation’s two dominant ethnic groups, the Hutu and Tutsi, in which an estimated 300,000 people died. Burundi issues arrest warrants around 1993 assassination 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z The 1994 Rwanda genocide, in which up to a million Tutsis and Hutus died, was sparked when President Juvenal Habyarimana’s jet was downed by a missile whose provenance remains hotly disputed. Rwanda’s Khashoggi: who killed the exiled spy chief? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Is there anything more shameful for a Tutsi than milking goats? Fiction by Scholastique Mukasonga: “Cattle Praise Song” 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Earlier this month the Senate warned that NGOs would be punished for not following new regulations saying 60 percent of staffers must be ethnic Hutu and 40 percent must be Tutsi. Burundi suspends non-governmental groups for 3 months 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The Senate this month warned that NGOs would be punished for not following new regulations saying 60 percent of staffers must be ethnic Hutu and 40 percent must be Tutsi. Burundi suspends non-governmental groups for 3 months 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z More than 500,000 people were killed in the genocide by Hutu extremists against the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates in 1994. Danish court: Man can be extradited to Rwanda for war crimes 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Traditionally, a Tutsi minority made up Rwanda’s cattle-keeping aristocracy, while Hutu serfs tended to crops. Rwanda’s Khashoggi: who killed the exiled spy chief? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z A Tutsi in exile who still kept cows! Fiction by Scholastique Mukasonga: “Cattle Praise Song” 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Neighbours killed neighbours and some husbands even killed their Tutsi wives, saying they themselves would be killed if they refused. The true story behind Black Earth Rising 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Nearly three-quarters of the minority Tutsi population, including women and children, were slaughtered as well as moderate Hutus. Cleared of murders, convicted of speech: Bittersweet end to case of accused Goucher professor 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Three months later, in April of 1994, everything that Dallaire described in his warning took place, and in the course of a hundred days around a million Tutsis were massacred. Kofi Annan’s Unaccountable Legacy 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Despite government officials’ tendency to present Rwanda’s story in terms of a beleaguered Tutsi minority fighting for survival in a Hutu-dominated society, most of those targeted have been both former RPF insiders and Tutsis. Rwanda’s Khashoggi: who killed the exiled spy chief? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Here was a true Tutsi: he thought of his cows first. Fiction by Scholastique Mukasonga: “Cattle Praise Song” 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z A 2012 report by the UN accused Rwanda of backing a rebellion by the M23 - a mainly ethnic Tutsi movement - which Rwanda denies. The true story behind Black Earth Rising 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z They interviewed 22 witnesses and heard that Munyakazi, wearing the banana leaves of a Hutu, incited violence during a rally and organized nighttime raids on Tutsi homes, according to court records. Cleared of murders, convicted of speech: Bittersweet end to case of accused Goucher professor 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z He ordered them to chase every last Tutsi who might escape and kill any Hutu comrade who showed mercy. Betraying Justice for Rwanda’s Genocide Survivors 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Ngeze was the editor of a newspaper, Kangura, which routinely dehumanised and incited violence against Tutsis, and was a founder of an extremist Hutu political party whose leaders presided over the mass killings. Rwanda appalled at chance of early release for genocide criminals 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z A great sorrow descended upon us exiled Tutsi, but Rukorera’s flight hardly surprised us. Fiction by Scholastique Mukasonga: “Cattle Praise Song” 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z He warned that mechanisms to protect the Tutsi minority in the Hutu-majority country “are weakened and will even disappear.” UN envoy urges dialogue with opposition after Burundi vote 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Leaders in four political parties noted that their memberships drew from the country’s two major ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi. Burundi Voters Back Constitution Extending Presidential Term 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z After the crash, the Tutsi became prey for legions of armed, agitated Hutu militiamen. Betraying Justice for Rwanda’s Genocide Survivors 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Ngeze called for the murder of Tutsis, armed the killers and selected individuals to die. Rwanda appalled at chance of early release for genocide criminals 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Like so many other Rwandan Tutsi, I followed the path of exile. Fiction by Scholastique Mukasonga: “Cattle Praise Song” 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Yet many of the officers who dominated before 2005, most of them Tutsi, have been forced to retire or posted abroad on peacekeeping missions in places such as Somalia and the Central African Republic. Burundi’s president has named himself “Supreme Eternal Guide”. So, no plans for retirement 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The peace accord that ended the civil war ensured that the national and local government, parliament and the senate are composed of both Hutu and Tutsis, split 60% to 40%. Tensions high as Burundi votes in referendum on presidential powers 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Ethnic quotas enabled the Tutsi minority, which used to dominate the country, to enjoy a veto since laws are adopted through a two-thirds majority in the Senate. First a third term, now a seven-year mandate 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z “To this day, they refuse to recognise it was a genocide against the Tutsi. To this day, they refuse to accept any responsibility for their actions. They are unrepentant violent extremists,” she said. Rwanda appalled at chance of early release for genocide criminals 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z My father, my mother, and the rest of my family were not spared by the genocide; nor were the other Nyamata Tutsi. Fiction by Scholastique Mukasonga: “Cattle Praise Song” 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z It had been rebuilt under the Arusha accords with quotas for Hutus and Tutsis at all levels of its officer corps, to win the trust of both groups. Burundi’s president has named himself “Supreme Eternal Guide”. So, no plans for retirement 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z “It’s a long story,” Bajinya, the daughter of a Hutu mother and Tutsi father, concluded — flashing a smile. African refugee finds what she calls ‘home’ in Tacoma choir 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Aline Niragira was five years old when Burundi’s first democratically elected Hutu president was assassinated by Tutsi extremists, sparking mass killings and a brutal civil war that would last 12 years. Burundi on a knife edge as president's power play hastens exodus to Rwanda 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Dominique Ntawukuriryayo was a local official who lured Tutsis to their deaths with promises of protection and then handed them over to the Hutu Interahamwe militia to be murdered. Rwanda appalled at chance of early release for genocide criminals 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z And in my dreams King Gihanga always asks the same question: “So it was you, the Tutsi, who chose to herd cows?” Fiction by Scholastique Mukasonga: “Cattle Praise Song” 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z “It’s a long story,” Bajinya, the daughter of a Hutu mother and Tutsi father, finally concluded - flashing a smile that belied the gravity of what she’d just recounted. African refugee woman finds a ‘home’ in Tacoma choir 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z In one of the most riveting sections of the book, she describes in harrowing detail the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when the Hutu majority massacred about 800,000 Tutsis in only 100 days. Review | Admitting to hate and trying to change 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The staggering death toll of the Rwandan genocide — one million Tutsis killed in 100 days — is seared into the framework of that nation’s reconciliation process. How Syria’s Death Toll Is Lost in the Fog of War 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z “Their release from prison would cause untold psychological harm for the survivors of the genocide against the Tutsi, and it would contribute to the erosion of the international criminal justice system,” he said. Rwanda appalled at chance of early release for genocide criminals 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The staggering death toll of the Rwandan genocide — 1 million Tutsis killed in 100 days — is seared into the framework of that nation’s reconciliation process. How Syria’s death toll is lost in the fog of war 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z There’s Nadine, a young Tutsi woman who survived the genocide in Rwanda and has suppressed her memories of the horror. ‘In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills’: Powerful Rwanda-genocide tale comes to light 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z The report by a U.S. law firm cites evidence that purports to show French complicity before, during and after the genocide by ethnic Hutu extremists against ethnic Tutsi and some Hutu moderates. World Digest: Dec. 13, 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z “There were cases where they found Tutsi refugees, saw them, and then left them, and more of them were killed,” said Timothy P. Longman, the director of the African Studies Center at Boston University. Rwanda Accuses France of Complicity in 1994 Genocide 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z The report by U.S. law firm Cunningham Levy Muse cites evidence that purportedly shows French complicity before, during and after the genocide by ethnic Hutu extremists against ethnic Tutsi and some Hutu moderates. Rwanda-backed report alleges France’s role in 1994 genocide 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z He wrote and performed popular songs urging Hutu to slaughter Tutsi. New Zealand's first refugee MP in controversy over legal defence of war criminals 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z In Rwanda in 1994, you were either identified as Tutsi or as Hutu; there was no in-between. Opinion | The only way to defeat Roy Moore 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z It doesn’t matter whether perpetrators are ultimately successful; the Rwandan Tutsis and Srebrenica Muslims were not completely destroyed but that doesn’t mean they weren’t the victims of genocide. Myanmar’s Attempt to Destroy Rohingya Muslims 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Scapegoated like the Jews in Nazi Germany, called insects like the Tutsis during Rwanda’s genocide, they are Muslim people in a Buddhist land, dehumanized by their own government and made easy prey. My Interview With a Rohingya Refugee: What Do You Say to a Woman Whose Baby Was Thrown Into a Fire? 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z In post-genocidal Rwanda, the reconciliation there is so inspiring, especially knowing that there were about a million Tutsis murdered there in a little over a month. Morgan Freeman Seeks What Unites Humankind 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Kagame won international praise for restoring stability in Rwanda and presiding over a rapid economic recovery after the genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsi people and politically moderate Hutus were killed. Critic of Rwandan president charged with inciting insurrection 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Most of the victims were of minority Tutsi ethnicity; most of the killers belonged to the majority Hutus. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z “Three of them were Hutus and one a Tutsi and we were all very close,” he says. How being a footballer saved me from death in Rwanda genocide 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Kagame, a commander who led Tutsi rebel forces into Rwanda to end the 1994 genocide, banned the use of tribal terms after becoming president. Rwanda’s Paul Kagame easily wins a third term in office. 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z They call themselves “Rwandans” now instead of Tutsis and Hutus, and I think when Morgan was just saying “let’s call ourselves American,” we should rally under the idea that we’re all one. Morgan Freeman Seeks What Unites Humankind 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Rwandans will rarely even say “Hutu” or “Tutsi” out loud. Kagame seems set to win again in Rwanda. But is he a ‘miracle man’ or a nascent dictator? 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Three and a half years before the genocide, a rebel army of mainly Rwandan Tutsi exiles known as the Rwandan Patriotic Front, or RPF, had invaded Rwanda and set up camps in the northern mountains. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Soldiers scoured Kigali for enemies of the regime; and the Interahamwe began hunting Tutsis. How being a footballer saved me from death in Rwanda genocide 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Bosco Ntaganda, an ethnic Tutsi from Rwanda, briefly took the stand in the afternoon at the start of what is expected to be weeks of questioning by his defense lawyer and cross-examination by prosecutors. Congolese rebel Ntaganda testifying in his defense at ICC 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z They complained about bullies hounding them for being Tutsis, a minority ethnic group. Thousands of women were raped during Rwanda’s genocide. Now their kids are coming of age. 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Soap opera listeners were far more likely to say their community supported intermarriage between Hutus and Tutsis. How can we blunt prejudice against immigrants? 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z In Uganda, a new generation of Tutsi refugees grew up, but they soon became embroiled in the lethal politics of their adoptive country. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z More than 500,000 were killed in the genocide by Hutu extremists against the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates in 1994. Denmark arrests man wanted by Rwanda in 1994 probe 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “That was the fault of the then government that pushed us to kill Tutsis,” he said, his eyes gazing steadily ahead as he echoed a sentiment heard throughout the community from both perpetrators and survivors. How a Nation Reconciles After Genocide Killed Nearly a Million People 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Agnes was a Tutsi teenager when the streets began filling with bodies. Thousands of women were raped during Rwanda’s genocide. Now their kids are coming of age. 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z The story did not refer to Hutus and Tutsis directly. How can we blunt prejudice against immigrants? 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z By the time Museveni took power, the plight of the Tutsi refugees had come to the attention of the west, which began pressuring Rwanda’s government to allow them to return. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z In November, the government in Kigali requested an apology from the Vatican for the role that some Catholic priests and religious figures played in the massacres of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Rwandan genocide: Pope Francis asks forgiveness for Church failings - BBC News 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z “I was in the part which was being hunted,” he explained, describing his family’s ethnic identity without ever saying the word Tutsi. How a Nation Reconciles After Genocide Killed Nearly a Million People 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Rwandan government leaders had commanded the majority population, the Hutus, to exterminate the Tutsis. Thousands of women were raped during Rwanda’s genocide. Now their kids are coming of age. 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z In some cases, Hutus were forced by military personnel to murder their Tutsi neighbours. Pope Francis asks for forgiveness for church's role in Rwanda genocide 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z A few days later, he dropped in on a Rwandan Tutsi colonel in Uganda’s army, named Stephen Ndugute. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z On Monday, Pope Francis conveyed his "profound sadness" for the "genocide against the Tutsi," the Vatican said in a statement. Rwandan genocide: Pope Francis asks forgiveness for Church failings - BBC News 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Estimates of the numbers of minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus who lost their lives in the killings range from 800,000 to 2 million, according to human rights groups. Rwanda economy, everyday life booming two decades after genocide 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z But three months passed, and a Tutsi rebel army overthrew the government, and there she was, following a U.N. soldier out of the rubble. Thousands of women were raped during Rwanda’s genocide. Now their kids are coming of age. 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z About 200 priests and nuns – Tutsi and Hutu – were among those slaughtered. Pope Francis asks for forgiveness for church's role in Rwanda genocide 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z They were staying in the same hotel and Museveni rang Habyarimana’s room at 5am to say he had just learned that 14 of his Rwandan Tutsi officers had deserted and crossed into Rwanda. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Tens of thousands of Tutsis went into exile after King Kigeli and for three decades the country endured ethnic violence. Rwanda: Body of King Kigeli V repatriated after court battle - BBC News 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z “We innocently slaughtered our brothers and sisters because we thought they were wealthier than us,” said Mr. Shinga, referring to Tutsis who had historically belonged to the Rwandan elite. Rwanda economy, everyday life booming two decades after genocide 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Senior officials from the defense and security forces and the ruling party also “increasingly and brazenly denounce ‘Tutsis’ as enemies of the regime,” they said. Rights group urges troops for Burundi to prevent genocide 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z An agreement was eventually signed in 2000, which laid out rules for equal representation of Hutus and Tutsis, and said that no president could serve more than two terms. Murder in Burundi: the man who knew too much | Jessica Hatcher-Moore 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Museveni’s promotion of the Rwandan refugees within the army generated not only resentment within Uganda, but terror within Rwanda where the majority Hutus had long feared an onslaught from Tutsi refugees. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Nearly three-quarters of the Tutsi population was massacred as well as moderate Hutus. Case of professor accused of genocide ends with deportation 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Hutu and Tutsi laborers can been seen working side by side on construction projects. Rwanda economy, everyday life booming two decades after genocide 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z In the 1994 Rwanda genocide, more than 500,000 minority Tutsis and moderate members of the Hutu majority were killed by Hutu extremists. Rights group urges troops for Burundi to prevent genocide 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Observers watched with mixed feelings as Tutsis and Hutus united on the streets in defence of their hard-won peace agreement. Murder in Burundi: the man who knew too much | Jessica Hatcher-Moore 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Hutus and Tutsis were increasingly united in criticising Habyarimana’s autocratic behaviour and nepotism, and the vast economic inequalities in the country. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Among those imprisoned was Munyakazi, a Hutu scholar with a Tutsi wife and five children. Case of professor accused of genocide ends with deportation 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z “I’m a Hutu, but I work and live with Tutsis right now,” she said. Rwanda economy, everyday life booming two decades after genocide 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z War in Burundi — which is overwhelmingly Hutu — started in 1993 when Tutsi paratroopers assassinated the country’s first democratically elected president, a Hutu. Rights group urges troops for Burundi to prevent genocide 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z A year later, a moderate Tutsi archbishop was murdered by gunmen. Murder in Burundi: the man who knew too much | Jessica Hatcher-Moore 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z In December 1993, a picture of a machete appeared on the front page of a Hutu publication under the headline “What to do about the Tutsis?” America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The dates mattered because after the April 19 rally nearly every Tutsi was killed in Kirwa. Case of professor accused of genocide ends with deportation 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Since then, Rwanda has made stunning progress under President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi and former rebel leader who took power in July 1994 after bringing an end to the genocide. Rwanda economy, everyday life booming two decades after genocide 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z They were simply trying to convict Akayesu of helping members of the Hutu people wipe out the Tutsis in his village, and the prosecutors kept coming up against some major obstacles. ‘The Uncondemned’ revisits a milestone war-crimes trial 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z In the wake of that conflict, which divided the nation along ethnic lines, between Hutu and Tutsi, Burundians vowed that their country would never again experience such brutal violence. Murder in Burundi: the man who knew too much | Jessica Hatcher-Moore 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Hutu anger simmered until shortly before independence in 1962, then exploded in brutal pogroms against the Tutsi, hundreds of thousands of whom fled to neighbouring countries. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z He led a band of Hutus to find and kill an educated Tutsi, and he orchestrated night raids on Tutsi homes, they said. Case of professor accused of genocide ends with deportation 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Mitchell and Louvel start the film with a brisk recap of 1994's appalling Rwandan genocide, where some 1 million Tutsi were slaughtered by the Hutu majority government in 100 days. The not-so-hidden atrocities of war get their day in court in 'The Uncondemned' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Shortly after Kigeli’s coronation, the majority Hutu ethnic group launched an uprising against the ruling Tutsis. Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, Rwandan king without a crown, dies at 80 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z In 1995, during the civil war, when the majority Hutus rose up against the abusive Tutsi military, gunmen executed two priests and a lay preacher suspected of supporting the rebels. Murder in Burundi: the man who knew too much | Jessica Hatcher-Moore 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The RPF rebel army represented Tutsi refugees who had fled their country in the early 1960s. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z “Munyakazi is a college professor, and it strains credulity to believe that he was unaware that every Tutsi in his small village was being butchered even as he sat at home,” U.S. Case of professor accused of genocide ends with deportation 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr Kagame maintains it was the work of Hutu extremists, who wanted to provide a pretext for violence against the Tutsi community. Rwanda genocide: Kagame warns of 'showdown' with France - BBC News 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z “My heart, which beats with both Tutsi and Hutu blood, grieves,” Kigeli told guests at a Red Cross function that year in Vancouver, according to the Vancouver Sun. Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, Rwandan king without a crown, dies at 80 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi resulted in the slaughter of up to one million people — around 15% of the population. Rwanda: From killing fields to technopolis : Nature : Nature Research 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z But the rebels’ troop movements suggested that their primary priority was conquering the country, not saving Tutsi civilians. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Attacks on Tutsis in Kabarondo began soon after Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed in a rocket attack on his plane, the trigger for the violence. French court jails Rwanda mayors over genocide - BBC News 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Witnesses said Barahira and Ngenzi were present at that time, conducting an "ethnic selection" of the survivors, inciting militiamen to execute those identified as Tutsis. 2 Rwandan ex-mayors handed life terms over genocide 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Kigeli descended from the Tutsi dynasty that ruled Rwanda for centuries. Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, Rwandan king without a crown, dies at 80 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The Tutsis in Rwanda were described as cockroaches to be killed by the Hutu majority in that country’s 1994 genocide. Disgust – how Donald Trump and Brexit campaigners win votes 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Shortly after the invasion, all Tutsis – whether RPF supporters or not – became targets of a vicious propaganda campaign that would bear hideous fruit in April 1994. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z They were accused of playing leading roles in the massacre of 2,000 ethnic Tutsis who sought refuge in a church in the town of Kabarondo. French court jails Rwanda mayors over genocide - BBC News 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z In the most conservative estimate, more than three-quarters of the registered Tutsi population was massacred. Forgotten scandal: How the U.S. prevented U.N. action on Rwandan genocide, under Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Witnesses said Barahirwa and Ngenzi were present at that time, conducting an “ethnic selection” of the survivors, executing those identified as Tutsis. 2 former Rwandan mayors stand trial in France over genocide 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Witnesses said Barahirwa and Ngenzi were present at that time, conducting an "ethnic selection" of the survivors, executing those identified as Tutsis. Two former Rwandan mayors have appeared in a French court for allegedly inciting and taking a leading part in a local mass killing of ethnic Tutsis during the first days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Even Tutsis inside Rwanda were against giving the RPF so much power because they knew it could provoke the angry, fearful Hutus even more, and they were right. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The ethnic violence presaged the events two decades later in Rwanda, where between 500,000 and 1 million people, mainly Tutsis, died in a Hutu-led genocide. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, ousted Burundian president, dies at 69 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “Today, it seems barely possible to believe. The international community actually chose to abandon the Tutsi of Rwanda at the very moment when they were being exterminated,” the international panel said. Forgotten scandal: How the U.S. prevented U.N. action on Rwandan genocide, under Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z After a peace accord in 2005, Nkurunziza was elected President by a broad coalition of Hutus and Tutsis in parliament, who were excited by his claims to be the candidate of reconciliation. On the Run in Burundi 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Barankitse was born in Burundi, a central African nation where a tumultuous ethnic conflict pit her people, the Tutsis, against the Hutus. Orphanage Founder From Africa Wins Prize in Memory of Armenian Genocide 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Some were Rwandan Tutsi deserters from Uganda’s army; others were volunteers from the refugee camps. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Bagaza belonged to the Hima Tutsi of southern Burundi, a tribe that The Washington Post once described as “a minority within a minority.” Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, ousted Burundian president, dies at 69 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “Retiring Tutsis is not genocide”, says one Western diplomat. Sliding towards anarchy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The opposition is ethnically mixed—for example, Jean is Hutu, Émile is Tutsi—and so is Nkurunziza’s ruling party. On the Run in Burundi 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z In 1993, she sought to shelter a group of Hutus at a Catholic diocese where she worked and was forced to watch a Tutsi mob dismember and burn two Hutus she had tried to protect. Orphanage Founder From Africa Wins Prize in Memory of Armenian Genocide 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z By the time it reached the capital weeks later, most of the Tutsis there were dead. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Unlike Rwanda, Burundi was long ruled by the Tutsi minority in a form of tribal apartheid after the nation achieved independence from Belgium in 1962. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, ousted Burundian president, dies at 69 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z On December 11th last year, a campaign of grenade-throwing culminated in fighting on the streets as armed opponents of the president, both Hutu and Tutsi, mounted an attack on a barracks. Sliding towards anarchy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Like Rwanda, Burundi has also seen bitter, genocidal wars between Hutu and Tutsi. The world looks away as blood flows in Burundi 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z He told a group including Hutu civilians to surround Cyahinda parish, in southern Rwanda, "so that no Tutsis could escape and told them to kill Tutsis", the indictment alleges. Genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa flown to Rwanda for trial - BBC News 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Most viewers assumed that all the corpses were Tutsis killed by Hutu génocidaires. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z After a period of exile, Mr. Bagaza remained active in Burundian politics as head of Parena, described as an extremist party of Tutsis. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, ousted Burundian president, dies at 69 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Tutsis are also being sidelined from government institutions. Sliding towards anarchy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z A year later thousands of Hutus are massacred by Tutsis. The world looks away as blood flows in Burundi 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Militias from the majority Hutu ethnic group massacred Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa flown to Rwanda for trial - BBC News 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z At the time, Hutu/Tutsi relations inside Rwanda had improved. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z He was credited with inviting a limited number of Hutus into the Tutsi-dominated government and sought to improve ethnic relations by transferring Tutsi farmland to Hutus. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, ousted Burundian president, dies at 69 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z On April 15th the government announced that 700 soldiers—almost all of whom served in the army when it was an entirely Tutsi institution—were to be forced to retire. Sliding towards anarchy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z In October, Tutsi soldiers assassinate the president, sparking revenge killings of Tutsis and then army reprisals. The world looks away as blood flows in Burundi 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z He is alleged to have helped form a Hutu militia "to exterminate" Tutsis while mayor of the town of Nyakizu. Genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa flown to Rwanda for trial - BBC News 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z The next morning, frantic Hutu militia groups, convinced that the Nilotic apocalypse was at hand, launched a ferocious attack against their Tutsi neighbours. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z But the tasks he faced were daunting: civil wars and famine were ripping through Somalia, nationalism and ethnic conflict riddled Yugoslavia, while the conflict between Hutus and Tutsis was gearing Rwanda towards genocide. The Rise and Fall of Boutros Boutros-Ghali at the U.N. 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Murderous conflicts between Hutus and Tutsis were hurtling toward genocide in Rwanda. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Former U.N. Secretary General, Dies at 93 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z He is of mixed Hutu and Tutsi parentage and said he seeks to build a society based on ethnic harmony and equity. Hotel Rwanda hero decries oppression two decades after genocide 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Residents of other neighborhoods had reported that arrests mainly targeted the Tutsi population. Burundi’s Forces Are Engaging in Gang Rape, U.N. Official Says 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z During the 1960s, Uganda’s Tutsi refugees had launched occasional armed strikes across the border, but Rwanda’s army easily fought them off. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z His office also cited growing signs that Tutsis were being targeted in the Hutu-majority country that is next to Rwanda. The UN human rights chief is denouncing gang rapes of women in Burundi by security forces, torture and signs of ethnic repression in nine months of simmering violence and repression 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Burundi has been plagued by tension between Tutsis and Hutus since independence in 1962. Burundi security troops gang-raped women, UN says - BBC News 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Zeid’s office said that the latest testimony gathered from the raided neighbourhoods suggested Tutsis had been targeted, adding that it was beginning to discern “an ethnic dimension” to December’s violence. Burundi: ‘all alarm signals flashing red’ warns UN as reports of atrocities mount 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z He cited testimony from one witness that Tutsis had been systematically killed in one Bujumbura neighborhood while Hutus were spared. Burundi’s Forces Are Engaging in Gang Rape, U.N. Official Says 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Museveni had even informed the Rwandan president that the Tutsi exiles might invade, and Habyarimana had also told US state department officials that he feared an invasion from Uganda. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The population of Burundi, like that of its neighbor Rwanda, is divided between Hutu and Tutsi tribes who have vied for dominance since colonial times. Women Say They Are Being Raped as Part of the President of Burundi's Fight to Keep Power 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Some witnesses say that violence from security forces was directed at the Tutsi minority. Burundi security troops gang-raped women, UN says - BBC News 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Campaigners fear the political unrest will spark a repeat of the civil war between the Tutsi and Hutu ethnicities, or worse, a new cycle of genocide. Civilians targeted as Burundi security forces crack down on protesters 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z As many as one million people were killed in 1994 in Rwanda, Burundi’s neighbor to the north, when members of that country’s Hutu majority slaughtered Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Burundi’s Forces Are Engaging in Gang Rape, U.N. Official Says 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z He had grown up among Hutus who had fled Tutsi oppression in Rwanda before independence in 1962, as well as Tutsis who had fled the Hutu-led pogroms that followed it. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z In Rwanda in 1994, the rivalry descended into the killing of as many as million Tutsi and Hutu moderates by Hutu extremists. Women Say They Are Being Raped as Part of the President of Burundi's Fight to Keep Power 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Extremist Hutu militia and Rwanda's military begin the organised killing of Tutsi, marking the start of the Rwandan genocide. How President Paul Kagame crushed Rwanda’s free press 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Jean Uwinkindi organised and participated in attacks on the minority Tutsi ethnic group, the court ruled. Rwanda genocide: Jean Uwinkindi sentenced to life in prison - BBC News 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Nkurunziza, who is from the Hutu ethnic group, appears to be sidelining military officers from the Tutsi minority whose loyalty is questioned. Defections from Burundi army highlight ethnic divisions amid looming threat of war 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Each attack sparked reprisals against those Tutsis who remained inside Rwanda – many of whom were rounded up, tortured and killed – on mere suspicion of being supporters of the refugee fighters. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The opposition neighborhoods in the capital are considered historically Tutsi areas of the city, in a country where ethnic divisions between Hutus and Tutsis have fueled past wars. Women Say They Are Being Raped as Part of the President of Burundi's Fight to Keep Power 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “Or was it because he was a Tutsi?” Burundi Crackdown Puts Hutus and Tutsis, and the West, on Edge 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Ethnic conflict between Hutus and Tutsis which began in Burundi in the early 1990s claimed an estimated 300,000 lives. Burundi security forces accused of violent repression - BBC News 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Some Tutsis are also starting to defect from the army and one, a colonel, announced the creation of a new rebel group last week. Defections from Burundi army highlight ethnic divisions amid looming threat of war 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Lawrence’s childhood catechist had been a Tutsi; the Hutus who worked in his family’s gardens wouldn’t attend his lessons. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Burundi's 12-year civil war, which ended in 2005, pitted rebel groups of the Hutu majority, including one led by Nkurunziza, against what was then an army led by the Tutsi minority. Death toll from day of clashes in Burundi capital rises to nearly 90 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Hutus and Tutsis continue to live together, work together and intermarry. Burundi Crackdown Puts Hutus and Tutsis, and the West, on Edge 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Most of those killed on 11 December were residents of districts mostly inhabited by members of the minority Tutsi ethnic group, it says. Burundi security forces accused of violent repression - BBC News 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Security forces, including the military, used deadly force to break up the crowds protesting Nkurunziza's third-term bid in some volatile neighborhoods, some of which were heavily populated by Tutsis. Defections from Burundi army highlight ethnic divisions amid looming threat of war 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Instead, they swapped fantastic tales about how Tutsis once used their Hutu slaves as spittoons, expectorating into their mouths, instead of on the ground. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z During that conflict, Nkurunziza was among the mainly Hutu rebels fighting against the army, which was then dominated by the Tutsi minority. Burundi in economic turmoil as unrest triggers fourfold increase in bad debt 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z According to several analysts, Mr. Nkurunziza is now restacking the military, removing Tutsi officers he does not trust from vital positions and disarming others. Burundi Crackdown Puts Hutus and Tutsis, and the West, on Edge 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z At the parish he addressed the Tutsi, using a megaphone and told them to lay down their weapons, the indictment said. Rwanda's 'most wanted man' arrested by Interpol over 1994 genocide 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z According to the Arusha agreement, Tutsis should hold 40 percent of posts in the government and the national assembly, as well as 50 percent of all seats in the Senate and the military. Defections from Burundi army highlight ethnic divisions amid looming threat of war 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z In northern and eastern Uganda, where a harsh counterinsurgency campaign was underway, some of the army’s worst abuses had been committed by Rwandan Tutsi officers. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z On April 14-15, 1994, his indictment said, Mr. Ntaganzwa distributed weapons to civilians surrounding a parish where thousands of Tutsis had taken shelter, then used a megaphone to order them to shoot into the crowd. Ladislas Ntaganzwa, Top Suspect in Rwandan Genocide, Is Arrested 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Some suspects were Hutu, two people with knowledge of the operation said; the majority were Tutsi. Burundi Crackdown Puts Hutus and Tutsis, and the West, on Edge 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z The genocide saw militias from the majority Hutu ethnic group killing Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Rwanda genocide: Ladislas Ntaganzwa seized in DR Congo - BBC News 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z A prominent human rights activist told The Associated Press that Burundi's long-standing ethnic divide between Hutus and Tutsis is the key issue facing the country again. Defections from Burundi army highlight ethnic divisions amid looming threat of war 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Every person inside Rwanda visited by a Tutsi refugee would be followed by state agents and automatically branded an RPF sympathiser; many were arrested, tortured, and killed by Rwandan government operatives. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The genocide is officially described here strictly as the mass killing of Tutsis by Hutus. Obama’s push for democracy in Africa runs up against ‘presidents for life’ 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z More than one dozen Tutsis recently interviewed all said they opposed Mr. Nkurunziza’s decision to run for a third term. Burundi Crackdown Puts Hutus and Tutsis, and the West, on Edge 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Although the current violence appears to be political, Burundi has a history of deadly conflicts between the country's Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. Witnesses: 9 killed in gun attack inside bar as new violence hits Burundi's capital 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Burundi's army was considered the greatest success of the 2000 Arusha peace accord because it brought Hutu and Tutsi soldiers into a unified force. Defections from Burundi army highlight ethnic divisions amid looming threat of war 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Habyarimana had sought reconciliation with the Tutsis still living in Rwanda by reserving civil service jobs and university places for them in proportion to their share of the population. America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z It was not called genocide here, but in the 1990s hundreds of thousands of people died in ethnic violence between Tutsis and Hutus. Burundi's tit-for-tat killings spread fear - BBC News 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z On Wednesday, a Tutsi lieutenant colonel in the army announced that he was forming a new rebel group — the sixth. Burundi Crackdown Puts Hutus and Tutsis, and the West, on Edge 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Kagame led the invading force of Tutsi exiles that quelled the massacre after 100 days, and he has been the country’s leader ever since. For Clinton Foundation, Big Gains in Rwanda, Despite Pitfalls 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z The betrayal of the Tutsis in Rwanda was a low point for UN peacekeeping but not an isolated one. What's the point of peacekeepers when they don't keep the peace? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z He also served as a producer on the 2011 Sundance Audience Award-winning film "Kinyarwanda," about a young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man who fall in love amid the chaos in Rwanda. The 'weird arranged marriage' team behind 'The Perfect Guy' 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z So far the conflict has been free of an ethnic dimension as Hutu and Tutsi protesters stand side by side. Fear stalks Burundi as besieged regime turns to torture 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z The two countries do share many similarities: their size, their ethnic breakdown of about 85 percent Hutu and 15 percent Tutsi, and their legacy of mass murder. Burundi Crackdown Puts Hutus and Tutsis, and the West, on Edge 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Born in Rwanda but raised in Congo, he began his military career alongside Tutsi rebels who seized control of Rwanda in 1994, bringing to an end the genocide in which 800,000 died. War crimes court hears of rape, slavery at trial of Congo's Ntaganda 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The peacekeepers were not to be permitted to save Tutsis. What's the point of peacekeepers when they don't keep the peace? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The civil war was fought along ethnic lines with mostly Hutu rebels fighting against the politically dominant Tutsi minority. Ex-army chief Col Jean Bikomagu shot dead in Burundi - BBC News 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Muhozi, 54, who has been reported dead three times, added: “They woke up during those demonstrations, finding young Hutus and young Tutsis saying no, it’s no longer about ethnicity, it’s about something that is wrong.” Fear stalks Burundi as besieged regime turns to torture 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Burundi’s government is led by Hutus; witnesses said most of the victims in the revenge attacks were Tutsis. Burundi Crackdown Puts Hutus and Tutsis, and the West, on Edge 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z They share a common history, geography and language, and their populations are divided ethnically between Hutu and Tutsi. After Unrest, a Fragile Burundi Views Rwanda With Suspicion 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z The Tutsis could not imagine they would stand by while people were slaughtered. What's the point of peacekeepers when they don't keep the peace? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Burundi, like its neighbor Rwanda, has seen decades of tensions between its minority Tutsi and majority Hutu population. Your Tuesday Briefing 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z And a decade after the end of an ethnic-based civil war, Nkurunziza’s opponents accuse him of playing with fire by trying to turn the Hutu majority against the Tutsi minority. Fear stalks Burundi as besieged regime turns to torture 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z During the war, he was accused of leading men who ambushed and killed Tutsi civilians and was sentenced to death in absentia by a Burundian court. In Burundi, President Pierre Nkurunziza’s Push for Power Is Marked by Bloodshed 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The Tutsis in the government there are helping the Tutsis in the Burundi opposition. After Unrest, a Fragile Burundi Views Rwanda With Suspicion 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Within days, the UN command decided there was more important work for Lemaire and his men than protecting Tutsis. What's the point of peacekeepers when they don't keep the peace? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The war was fought along ethnic lines with mostly Hutu rebels fighting against the politically dominant Tutsi minority. Q&A: Burundi's fraught presidential poll - BBC News 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z The first question they asked was, ‘Are you a Hutu or a Tutsi?’ Fear stalks Burundi as besieged regime turns to torture 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Burundi’s civil war pitted rebel groups of the majority Hutus, including one led by Nkurunziza, against minority Tutsis, who commanded the army at that time. Burundi presidential election postponed as violence escalates 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Burundi gained its independence from Belgium in 1962, but it was plagued from the outset by tension between the Tutsi minority, which held most of the power, and the Hutu majority. Burundi Holds Elections After Night of Gunfire and Explosions 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z As the soldiers left, Tutsis begged to be shot rather than left to the militia’s machetes. What's the point of peacekeepers when they don't keep the peace? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The dead were mostly from the minority Tutsi tribe. Rwanda's Head of Intelligence Arrested For War Crimes 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z They said, ‘Ah, now you accept you are Tutsi. Every night there are people shooting at us. We’ll go with you and you have to show us where the guns are.’ Fear stalks Burundi as besieged regime turns to torture 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Burundi borders Rwanda, and the two nations share a grim past of strife between two major ethnic groups, the Hutu and Tutsi. Burundi Postpones Elections Amid Unrest 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z An estimated 300,000 people were killed during the civil war, which quickly took on an ethnic dimension as the two dominant groups — Hutu and Tutsi — fought for control. Burundi Holds Elections After Night of Gunfire and Explosions 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z The murdered Tutsis at the school might have stood a better chance if they had fled to Uganda. What's the point of peacekeepers when they don't keep the peace? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The civil war pitted the army, which was then led by the Tutsi minority, against majority Hutu rebel groups, including one led by Nkurunziza. Burundi protesters on streets after African leaders seek poll delay 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Hutus are being killed and Tutsis are being killed. Fear stalks Burundi as besieged regime turns to torture 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Unlike previous political upheavals the protests in Bujumbura do not seem ethnic-based as both Tutsi and Hutu are opposing the president’s bid for a third term. Refugees fear history is repeating itself in Burundi 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Unlike previous political upheavals the protests in Bujumbura do not seem ethnic-based as both Tutsi and Hutu are opposing the president's bid for a third term. Refugees fear history is repeating itself in Burundi 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Hundreds of desperate Tutsis sought refuge on the first day of the genocide at a school where 90 UN troops were under the command of Captain Luc Lemaire. What's the point of peacekeepers when they don't keep the peace? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Gen. Roméo Dalliare, commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, to U.N. headquarters in New York warning that plans were afoot to exterminate Rwanda’s Tutsis. News Clichés From All Over 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z "There are Hutus and Tutsis in the movement," goes one of the song's verses. Volatile Burundi seeks a new politics - BBC News 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Protesters, who government officials have said have come out mainly in Tutsi areas of the capital, say Imbonerakure and police are attacking them, a charge officials deny. Burundi ruling party youth rattles nerves in ethnic tinderbox 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The lower court found Rwabukombe incited his followers to slaughter 400 members of the Tutsi minority but the Federal Criminal Court said Thursday he appeared more actively involved. Rwandan convicted in Germany could face more prison time 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z That war tragically resembled the far more well-known 1994 genocidal conflict in neighboring Rwanda, which pitted a Hutu majority against a Tutsi minority. Burundi failed coup poses stark test for democracy 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Members of the Hutu majority slaughtered their Tutsi neighbors, killing hundreds of thousands of Tutsi minorities in only four months. Does The Justice System Neglect Forgiveness? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Some supporters of the president believe an "extermination plan" is being drawn up in neighbouring Kigali, where a Tutsi is president, targeting Burundi's Hutus. Volatile Burundi seeks a new politics - BBC News 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z |
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