HUYE, Rwanda (AP) — The diggers' hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for — and often finding — human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn ...
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. The remains of at least 1,000 people have been found in a ...
April 7 marks the U.N. International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It was established to remember members of the Tutsi community, an African ethnic group, who ...
Josephine Dusabimana says she rescued 12 people during the Rwandan genocide. (Jacques Nkinzingabo for NPR) LAKE KIVU, Rwanda — To be clear, there is nothing funny about genocide. Which is why it is ...
KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the East African nation's most horrific period in history — the genocide against its minority Tutsi. To this day, new mass graves ...
Becaause Ssewungu said he was Tutsi, Gashumba returned fire and said Ssewungu was Hutu. And that he eats pork. For those who ...
KIROLIRWE, Congo (Reuters) - A dissident Congolese Tutsi rebel commander said on Thursday he was ready to help Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to fight and disarm Rwandan Hutu rebels who ...
In 1994, sticks, stones, and machetes broke Tutsi bones, but words hurt them first. On September 27, 1959, in Ngoma, southern Rwanda, words spoken at a political rally would leave a long and deadly ...
BUGESERA, Rwanda (AP) — Anastasie Nyirabashyitsi and Jeanette Mukabyagaju think of each other as dear friends. The women’s friendship was cemented one day in 2007, when Mukabyagaju, going somewhere, ...
Huye, Rwanda — The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for — and often finding — human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence.