Immaculee Ilibagiza (l), the Tutsi woman whose family was murdered during the 1994 Rwandan genocide speaks with Metro Voices writer Maureen Sieh at the OnCenter, Saturday. My friend, Anne Marie ...

Many genocide widows, however, are still too traumatized to benefit from or participate in the changes transforming women's lives. Most of the political appointments have gone to Tutsi women who ...

Mary Barikungeri was just six years old when persecution against the Tutsi erupted in Rwanda in 1959. Her family, like thousands of others, fled the violence—first to Uganda, then across other borders ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women jailed in a Kigali prison for murdering their Tutsi neighbors in Rwanda's 1994 genocide talk about the killings as if they are still trying to justify ...

Several people had seen the Tutsi women arrive at the pastor's house, but no one had seen them leave, so after a few days, dozens of Hutus stormed the house, hoping to find the women and kill them.

“I couldn’t even kill a chicken,” said Paulina Nyiramasuhuko, the minister for women and the family in Rwanda’s ousted Hutu government. “If there’s a person who says that a woman — a ...

You see, Tutsi women were not “too dangerous” for the likes of Kabuga or Kayibanda. They were only dangerous when other Hutu men loved them. The real sin, according to these men, ...

Women Run the Show In a Recovering Rwanda. October 27, 2008. By Stephanie McCrummen. KIGALI, Rwanda -- On a continent that has been dominated by the rule of men, this tiny East African nation is ...

Tensions between Hutus and Tutsi are at their highest since the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. ... “They kill the Tutsi men and rape the Tutsi women. ...

Nshimiye allegedly participated in the killing of Tutsi men, women and children in Rwanda by hitting them on the head with a nail-studded club and then hacking them to death with a machete, the ...

The group was started in 2004 to bring Hutu and Tutsi women together in a safe space after the 1994 genocide. Christine Musabyemariya (center) enjoys herself during a rehearsal.