The Hill

GOP Rep. Duncan likens gun registration to Rwandan genocide

Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) warned in a Facebook post on Thursday that a national gun registry would be similar to a database used by the ruling Hutu tribe in Rwanda in the 1990s to locate and slaughter ...
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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 ...
Forbes

Genocide Against The Tutsi In Rwanda -30 Years Later

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Conversation

How conflicts intertwined over time and destabilised the DRC – and the region

Jacob Cloete does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Newsday

Though Rwanda has come a long way since the 1994 genocide, scars of the past still haunt the nation

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 ...
Daily Bruin

The Quad: Experts highlight lessons, reflect on root causes of Rwanda Genocide

April 7 marked 28 years since the start of the Rwanda genocide. The genocide against ethnic groups Tutsi, Twa and moderate Hutu by a Hutu extremist government took place over 100 days in 1994, ...
Tampa Bay Times

Thousands perish in little-known war

All the rebels want is to come back and live in their homeland, Rwanda. Each time, the government repulses them and offers the same odd explanation: The country is so overcrowded there is no room to ...
The Chicago Maroon

Thanks to Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda worth visiting

Based on a true story, Hotel Rwanda—director Terry George’s heartbreaking yet uplifting masterpiece—is the best film of 2004. The film centers on the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when nearly one million ...
The Washington Post

For Tutsis of Eastern Congo, Protector, Exploiter or Both?

KICHANGA, Congo -- On the way to the mountain headquarters of renegade Congolese Gen. Laurent Nkunda, there are villages patrolled by Laurent Nkunda's police and checkpoints where Nkunda's soldiers ...