The Hutu fighters fled to Congo in 1994 after helping massacre more than a half-million Tutsis. They remain there untouched, heavily armed, and in control of lucrative mines in remote hills and ...

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Two top leaders of a mostly ethnic Hutu militia were arrested in Germany Tuesday on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in Congo. Experts in the region called the arrests a major blow ...

A Swedish citizen of Rwandan origin was sentenced to life in prison after he was tried and convicted for his role in the country’s genocide nearly 20 years ago.

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

In the 100 days that followed, Hutu extremists slaughtered and raped hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi and Hutu moderates. Nsabumukunzi was a “sector councilor” in Kibirizi, ...

During that stay, Rwanda’s Hutu government would not renew his passport, so he remained in the States through the civil war and genocide, finally conceding to the inevitable in the summer of ...

The Rwandan genocide, which began in April 1994, saw Rwanda’s extremist-led Hutu government launch a systemic campaign on the Tutsi minority group as divisions between the two ethnic groups came ...

The Hutu-run military also spread word on the ground, encouraging violence and organising killing sprees. Thacien joined his fellow Hutus in the killings.

New mass graves are still being found in Rwanda, 30 years after the country's genocide in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsi were killed by extremist Hutu in massacres that lasted over 100 days ...

After then-President Juvénal Habyarimana's plane was shot down in April 1994, violence broke out across the country, and the Hutu majority targeted the minority population, killing an estimated ...

He also encouraged Hutu men to rape Tutsi women, prosecutors said in court papers. An estimated 800,000 Tutsis were killed during a three-month rampage of rape, murder and mutilation.