The president and his close colleagues decided, however, to exaggerate the RPF threat as a way to pull dissident Hutu back to his side and they began portraying Tutsi inside Rwanda as RPF ...

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 ...

It is one of the most shameful stories of the post-Cold War world. One million Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutu majority in Rwanda while the West turned a blind eye. As the U.N.ís Genocide ...

After 100 days of fighting between the two ethnic groups, the Tutsi militia defeated Hutu government forces, ending the war and the genocide. But the Hutus' three-month slaughter of Tutsis left ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's army denied Sunday that 20 fighters linked to the Rwandan genocide had been captured on its territory, calling a video of their handover to Rwanda "faked." The ...

Most Burundians know little about the terms being proposed in the peace negotiations. Politicians eager to maintain their popularity do not reveal the kinds of concessions which they have been ...

Both countries have long been dominated by their Tutsi minorities, leading to tensions with the Hutu majority. Many more are thought to have arrived in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide ...

Despite the Belgians having placed the Tutsis in a higher position during the Belgian rule, they have placed the majority Hutus in power after independence. Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu married to a ...

Eugene Rwamucyo, 65, is the latest person accused of taking part in the 1994 massacre of the small central African country's Tutsi population by the Hutu majority to face justice in France.

Rwanda denies the claims. M23 says its motivation is protecting Congolese Tutsi and other minorities, from Hutu groups who fled to the DRC after the Rwanda genocide that targeted Tutsis.