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

Thirty years ago, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a predominantly Tutsi armed group, took over Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city – and soon after, the country’s governance. This victory occurred amid a ...
The Atlantic

How Do You Forgive the People Who Killed Your Family?

Villagers hid in a church in Rukara, Rwanda, in April 1994. Hutu militia surrounded the church and launched a series of attacks that lasted for days, killing hundreds. Hussein Longolongo killed seven ...
The Conversation

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

Banyamulenge women at a funeral in South Kivu, eastern DRC on 7 October 2020. Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 has in complex ways fuelled violent ...
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Bisesero: Stronghold of courage during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi

Based on testimonies from survivors of the Bisesero resistance, many spoke of the overwhelming numbers of killers compared to the victims, and the extraordinary courage of the Tutsi who resisted. ALSO ...