LAKE KIVU, Rwanda — To be clear, there is nothing funny about genocide. Which is why it is particularly disconcerting to hear Josephine Dusabimana laugh out loud, repeatedly, as she recounts the ...
Thirty years ago, while he was hiding from the machetes that killed his father, two of his brothers and an estimated 800,000 other people during the genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi minority, Pascal ...
The class of Rwandan teenagers stare back at him until, upon further prompting, one mumbles: "the massive killing of people." Teaching young people in Rwanda about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, ...
Marijke Verpoorten is affiliated with The University of Antwerp. This study was originally commissioned under the UNU-WIDER project Institutional legacies of violent conflict, from which it received ...
In 1994, Rwanda was the site of one of the most devastating genocides in history. Over the course of just 100 days, nearly 1 million mostly ethnic Tutsi, were slaughtered by Hutu militias in a ...
When you read ‘Hutu’ and ‘Tutsi’ in this article, remember that it is a label given to Rwandans by colonizers and emphasized by the first and second republics. We don’t subscribe to these labels.
A study led by McGill University researchers offers insights into intergenerational memory and the experiences of children born of conflict-related sexual violence and their mothers in post-genocide ...
Ohio State will host Kwibuka, an event commemorating the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Saturday. This Kwibuka is one of 34 events across the United States ...
The Africa Alliance partnered with the Rwandese Community Association of Maine and Ibuka Maine, a community of genocide survivors, to put together the daylong observance. April 7 was the International ...
The United Nations will mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda with events under the theme “Remember. Unite. Renew.”. The events remember the victims and honour the ...