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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 ...

It's been three decades since armed militias of Rwanda's Hutu ethnic majority murdered hundreds of thousands of the country's Tutsi minority in what is now widely regarded as one of the worst ...

This summer marks the 80th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, a turning point for allied forces in the defeat of Nazi Germany which ended the Holocaust, arguably the worst atrocity in human history ...

Writer and director Milo Rau is bringing his recreation of Rwanda’s notorious and deadly radio station RTLM to St. Ann’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...