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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 ...
Tampa Bay Times

Hutu nuns accused of aiding genocide

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 ...
Reuters

Hundreds flee as Congo Tutsi rebels hunt Hutu foes

RUTSHURU, Congo (Reuters) - Hundreds of Congolese civilians fled east into neighboring Uganda on Wednesday to escape reported attacks on villages by Tutsi rebels who said they were hunting their ...
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 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 ...
Opinion
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When identity became a death sentence: The genocide against the Tutsi

In essence, Rwandans are one people throughout history. Colonialists created divisions among them as a strategy to achieve their devious goals. In the last piece of this serialised narrative, we saw ...