(Reuters) - Following are some details about the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 that killed more than 1 million people. Rwanda marked the 30th anniversary on Sunday. * In 1990, rebels of the ...

Writer-director Terry George, in Washington this past November to promote Hotel Rwanda, confessed that when he read co-writer Keir Pearson’s initial script, he felt that the politics threatened to ...

Over 100 days in Rwanda in 1994, about 800,000 people, mainly Tutsis, were slaughtered in a mass campaign of ethnic violence. Here is a timeline. - President killed - On April 6, 1994, Rwanda's ...

Rwanda’s Tutsi kings ruled over Hutu peasant farmers for three centuries. But in 1959, the Hutu finally overthrew the Tutsi monarchy. From then until President Juvenal Habyarimana’s death two weeks ...

President Juvenal Habyarimana had been returning to Rwanda after talks with the Tutsi rebels. Extremist Hutu politicians and military officers were opposed to a power-sharing deal, the panel said in ...

The Hague (AFP) – Rwanda has asked the Netherlands to extradite a suspected Rwandan Hutu militia leader for his role in the central African nation's 1994 genocide, a Dutch justice official said on ...

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 ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Tuesday his country's sovereignty was violated when an aide visiting Germany was arrested in connection with an attack that set off Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Rose ...

PARIS -- A French investigation has found that the missile fire which brought down the Rwandan president's plane in 1994 and sparked the country's genocide came from a military camp and not Tutsi ...

Businessmen close to Habyarimana imported large numbers of machetes, enough to arm every third adult Hutu male. Aware of these preparations, the RPF anticipated further conflict. They too recruited ...