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How Hutu and Tutsi masses hang between elites and Belgian colonialists

In the previous article in this series, we saw how a monarchy described as Tutsi-based was replaced with a Hutu-based republic. In both cases the Tutsi and Hutu masses were used by the elites and the ...
The New Times on MSN

How ‘Hutu masses’ were pawns in sociopolitical changes of late-colonial Rwanda

In the previous article in this series, we saw how a so-called “Tutsi-based” monarchy was replaced with a “Hutu-based’ republic. The Hutu masses were used as pawns to further the interests of Hutu ...
National Catholic Reporter

Forgiveness key to overcoming genocide, says African peace activist

This year marks 30 years since violence exploded between Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups in the sub-Saharan African nation of Burundi. A few months later, in neighboring Rwanda, genocidal violence ...
PBS

The Triumph of Evil

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.ís Genocide ...
Global Voices Online

Burundi’s troubled history of the untold 1972 Hutu genocide

The Rwandan genocide of 1994 is a widely documented atrocity, but it is important to note that in 1972, a significant number of people in neighboring Burundi were brutally killed in a largely ...
Reuters

"Hotel Rwanda" hero fears new Hutu-Tutsi killings

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, ...
WBUR

Rwandan genocide survivor on the 30th anniversary of the violence

Sunday, April 7 will mark 30 years since the start of the horrifying genocide in Rwanda. Over three months, the Tutsi ethnic minority were massacred by organized Hutu militias. It's estimated that 800 ...
NPR

As a brutal genocide raged around her, Josephine smuggled 12 people to safety

LAKE KIVU, Rwanda — To be clear, there is nothing funny about genocide. Which is why it is particularly disconcerting to hear Josephine Dusabimana laugh out loud, repeatedly, as she recounts the ...
webtv.un.org

United Nations remembers 1994 genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda

The United Nations will mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda with events under the theme “Remember. Unite. Renew.”. The events remember the victims and honour the ...
The Conversation

Rwanda’s Tutsi minority has been in power for 30 years – but study finds ethnicity doesn’t matter to people if their needs are met

Marijke Verpoorten is affiliated with The University of Antwerp. This study was originally commissioned under the UNU-WIDER project Institutional legacies of violent conflict, from which it received ...
The Conversation

Rwanda genocide: 30 years on, why Tutsis are at the centre of DR Congo’s conflict

Christopher P. Davey receives funding from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and is a board member for Education for Global Peace. The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 has in complex ...
The Lantern

Ohio State to host Kwibuka event to commemorate 31st anniversary of genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda

Ohio State will host Kwibuka, an event commemorating the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Saturday. This Kwibuka is one of 34 events across the United States ...