For decades, the French supported the Hutu regime even when it became Nazi-like in its racial nationalism. It may be difficult for Americans to comprehend such imperialistic motivations, but the main ...

This violence destroyed the fragile alliance between the RPF and Hutu groups opposed to Habyarimana’s government. Appealing to Hutu youth enraged over these atrocities, the government-operated Radio ...

Most of us might be accustomed to the 1994 Rwandan genocide popularized by the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda in which the shooting down of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was used as a signal to ...

President Juvenal Habyarimana, nearing the end of two decades in power, was losing popularity among Rwandans when the RPF attacked from Uganda on October 1, 1990. At first Habyarimana did not see the ...

KIGALI (Reuters) - Hutu extremists shot down the plane carrying former President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose assassination marked the start of the 100-day genocide in 1994, a government report said on ...

Kigali — April 7, a very cold wintry day in Brussels, as cold as the manifestations of hate expressed by those Hutu extremists who have found a safe haven there since they escaped from Rwanda in the ...

Stories from Rwanda is an historical account of how, in the space of around two months in 1994, nearly 1 million Rwandan people were killed by their compatriots. Despite the fact that most of the ...

After five years of negotiations aimed at ending nearly a decade of civil war in this tiny central African nation, President Pierre Buyoya _ a minority Tutsi _ is handing over power to his Hutu vice ...