They are the lesser-known victims of Rwanda's genocide, 25 years after it happened. An estimated 800,000 people were killed in a little over three months when Hutus turned on their Tutsi neighbors ...
Freddy Mutanguha, a Tutsi, is one of the survivors ... providing vital information to prosecutors about suspects and where victims' bodies had been dumped. The ringleaders, however, remain ...
Almost all the victims are members of the Tutsi (or Watusi) tribe, usually remembered for their great height--many Tutsi are seven feet tall. The people slaughtering the Tutsi are the Hutu ...
Even more important in this land-hungry society, they promised cultivators the fields left vacant by Tutsi victims. To entrepreneurs and members of the local elite, they granted houses ...
The alliance between the Congolese army, MONUSCO, the Wazalendo, and the FDLR has contributed to the increased militarization ...
Serge Brammertz, chief prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), held talks ...
although the real victims were Tutsis living across the border in Rwanda. (The Tutsi ethnicity also lives on the western side of the DRC-Rwanda border, in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces.) ...
This not only denies justice to the victims and survivors but also perpetuates a climate ... commitment to ensuring that those responsible for the Genocide against the Tutsi are held accountable.