Most of us might be accustomed to the 1994 Rwandan genocide popularized by the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda in which the shooting down of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was used as a signal to ...
April 7 marks the U.N. International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It was established to remember members of the Tutsi community, an African ethnic group, who ...
As his comrades died of starvation and thirst around him, Mbale Hafashimana Amos finally decided to flee the Congolese bush ...
The genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda began 25 years ago this month. Over just 100 days, about 800,000 people — many of them Tutsis — were killed by Hutu extremists. But just a month before the ...
KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the East African nation's most horrific period in history — the genocide against its minority Tutsi. To this day, new mass graves ...
KIGALI, April 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rwanda embarks on a week of commemoration activities and 100 days of national mourning on Sunday to mark the 25th anniversary of the genocide in which ...
The nuns' soft voices are about the only sound that breaks the silence at the Benedictine abbey of Maredret, a haven of religious solitude deep in the Ardennes forest of southern Belgium. Among those ...
Belgium still behaves as though it is Europe’s natural interpreter of Central Africa, a role inherited from its colonial past and rarely questioned in European circles. For decades, Belgian officials ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
It’s not easy to understand how suddenly neighbors can turn on neighbors, friends can kill friends, family can slay family. Unless, says the Rev. Deogratias Mbonyumugenzi, you understand how the ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide, little is known about the political values of non-elite Hutu. The post-genocide regime has emphasized ...
KIROLIRWE, Congo (Reuters) - A dissident Congolese Tutsi rebel commander said on Thursday he was ready to help Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to fight and disarm Rwandan Hutu rebels who ...