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Inside Rwanda, the community-based Gacaca courts continued this selective justice, prosecuting exclusively Hutu while ...
In 1932, the Belgians introduced ethnic identity cards that divided Rwandans into three categories: Tutsi, Hutu, and Twa. This laid the groundwork for institutionalised discrimination. ALSO READ ...
In the 100 days that followed, Hutu extremists slaughtered and raped hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi and Hutu moderates. Nsabumukunzi was a “sector councilor” in Kibirizi, in the ...
Rwanda bans 'any kind of cooperation' with Belgian govt For around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were systematically killed by Hutu militias.
It is one of the most shameful stories of the post-Cold War world. One million Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutu majority in Rwanda while the West turned a blind eye. As the U.N.s Genocide ...
In the space of 100 days, nearly a million men, women and children, Tutsi, but also moderate Hutu and Twa, were murdered. This year once again, the UNESCO headquarters hosted a commemorative ceremony ...
He asked why The East African – and many media houses – continue to refer to the 1994 tragedy as “genocide against Tutsi” instead ... hundreds of thousands of Hutu also perished in the ...
The genocide was carried out by members of the Hutu — the majority ethnic group of Rwanda — who massacred many of the Tutsi — the minority ethnic group — Shyaka said. “This genocide ...
Some one million children, women and men were killed. While the overwhelming majority were Tutsi, Hutu and others who opposed the genocide also were slaughtered. "This was not a spontaneous frenzy ...
Rwanda is commemorating the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 people, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic group, were massacred by Hutu militias. But this year the event is marked by tensions over ...
For around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were systematically killed by Hutu militias. While the Rwandan Constitution states that over 1 ...