Rwandans and friends of Rwanda on Friday, July 4 mark the 31st anniversary of liberation (Kwibohora31), celebrating the achievements made since 1994 when the Genocide against the Tutsi was stopped by ...

Mary Barikungeri was just six years old when persecution against the Tutsi erupted in Rwanda in 1959. Her family, like thousands of others, fled the violence—first to Uganda, then across other borders ...

The management and members of staff of The New Times visited the Ntarama Genocide Memorial in Bugesera District on Wednesday, July 2, as part of the 31st commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the ...

They started to burn Tutsi houses. (SOUNDBITE OF BIRDS CHIRPING) SUMMERS: I sat with her on the shores of Lake Kivu in Rwanda recently, and she told me about a man who, 30 years ago, wanted her help.

Back to homepage / Live news DR Congo Tutsis face threats, prejudice amid rebel crisis. Goma (DR Congo) (AFP) – Sitting in a small courtyard in Goma, eastern DR Congo, a 55-year-old Tutsi woman ...

Nshimiye allegedly participated in the killing of Tutsi men, women and children in Rwanda by hitting them on the head with a nail-studded club and then hacking them to death with a machete, the ...

“Witnesses alleged that the defendant, as a leader, encouraged Hutu men to rape Tutsi women as a genocidal tool,” federal prosecutors wrote. Nsabumukunzi applied for refugee status in the U.S ...

Hundreds of Tutsi were killed; many women were raped. (The United Nations estimates that up to 250,000 women were raped in the genocide; another estimate puts the number even higher.) ...

An estimated 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were then killed by Hutu extremists. ... Authorities accuse him of killing Tutsi men, women and children using a nail-studded club and machete.