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 ...

The anti-Tutsi genocide in Rwanda was not spontaneous. French archival documents demonstrate beyond doubt that the orgy of violence that killed up to 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus. Hutu militants ...

June 25, 2004 -- In her gaily printed dresses and steel-rimmed glasses, a gold crucifix often dangling prominently from her neck, she looked more a stately African schoolmarm than a woman charged with ...

In 1994, sticks, stones, and machetes broke Tutsi bones, but words hurt them first. On September 27, 1959, in Ngoma, southern Rwanda, words spoken at a political rally would leave a long and deadly ...