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The 1994 genocide in Rwanda took place over a little more than three months, during which militias representing the Hutu ethnic group conducted a mass ...

When I joined the United Nations-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as a judicial legal advisor in 2007, I was filled with hope for justice and a safer future. We aimed to hold ...

The class of Rwandan teenagers stare back at him until, upon further prompting, one mumbles: "the massive killing of people." Slowly Arinetwe draws out more details, scrawling on the board the ...

Advanced reading by the teacher of the resource "Genocide" from Jill Rutter, Refugees: We Left Because We Had To (London, Refugee Council, 1996), pp. 75-77. Also see "Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region ...

What if a genocide like the ones in Rwanda or in Srebrenica were to happen today? Would the global response be any different? David J. Simon is a senior lecturer at the Yale University Jackson School ...

Document - The following are excerpts of Chairman Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) opening statement at the House Foreign Affairs Africa ...

The Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement (MINUBUMWE) has announced that 40% of Gacaca Court archives have been indexed as part of efforts to preserve the history of the genocide and combat ...

"Rwanda is a one-city country. Everything about the country revolves around the capital - Kigali."I had long nursed the idea of visiting Kigali, Rwanda's capital, given the exciting stories of ...

And I'm Steve Inskeep. This week marks the 20th anniversary of Rwanda's genocide. Leaders of the country's Hutu majority encouraged the slaughter of the ethnic Tutsi minority. People killed their ...

The murder of 500,000 Tutsi and Hutu opposition in Rwanda is genocidal murder. This event is one of many cases of genocide in the 20th century. The events in Rwanda in 1994 pose many moral questions ...