Discussion groups like these are still rare in Rwanda. In other villages where Hutu and Tutsi live together, Muhongayire said, people may act politely in public, but they are not fully healed.

In 1994, one million people, mostly Tutsis, were killed. April 7 marks the U.N. International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Do people ever think about the treachery and wickedness of Rwanda's genocide forefathers? Perhaps yes or no. It defies common sense and sears the conscience to contemplate how a man could both ...

Pictured, refugees fleeing the genocide of the Tutsi people in Rwanda in 1994. Sophie Elbaz/Sygma/Getty Images. I remember listening to music from a Tutsi artist who was in exile at the time.

Dusabimana is a Hutu and she was a helper. She risked her life, and the life of her family, to help Tutsi men, women and children escape the country, as hundreds of thousands were killed in a ...

In the past month alone, three people asked me if I was Hutu or Tutsi after I told them I was Rwandan. One of them was a white elderly man who was just walking by as I was chit chatting with ...

In 1959, as independence movements swept across Africa, the Hutus violently revolted against the Belgian colonists and the Tutsi elite. About 120,000 people, primarily Tutsis, fled the killings ...

The implication is that the destruction of the Tutsi people, an ethnic minority group, was the intention. 2024 also marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Hutus had been preparing to eradicate the Tutsi people for years, explained Thacien, who participated in several Hutu meetings some years before, but “1994 was the official genocide”, he said.

The Tutsi were blamed for downing the plane and killing the president. An estimated 800,000 Tutsis were killed by extremist Hutus in massacres that lasted over 100 days in 1994.

“I think it’s important that we make people aware of this history so that we don’t forget it, and so it doesn’t happen again,” he said. From April 7 to July 19 of 1994—a span of just 100 days—up to ...

The Tutsi tribe is a major ethnic group found in Rwanda and Burundi. For generations, they have been known for their impressive height, with young adult males averaging 1.83 meters (6 feet) tall.