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As Rwanda marks the 31st commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, young people are paying tribute to the resilience of their elders who rebuilt the country from devastation into a ...

When I joined the United Nations-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as a judicial legal advisor in 2007, I was filled with hope for justice and a safer future. We aimed to hold ...

It's been three decades since armed militias of Rwanda's Hutu ethnic majority murdered hundreds of thousands of the country's Tutsi minority in what is now widely regarded as one of the worst ...

The class of Rwandan teenagers stare back at him until, upon further prompting, one mumbles: "the massive killing of people." Slowly Arinetwe draws out more details, scrawling on the board the ...

The 1994 genocide in Rwanda took place over a little more than three months, during which militias representing the Hutu ...

When Shearman & Sterling needed to slim down a few years ago, it was willing to shutter storied outposts in Munich and Düsseldorf. But Shearman's unofficial office in Arusha, the dusty third city of ...

In Rwanda, students may soon learn their national history for the first time since the 1994 genocide. Following the bloody ethnic conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu, the government imposed a ...

For those of you who may not be aware, in Kinyarwanda – the national language of Rwanda – the word “Kwibuka” means “to remember”. The importance of remembering is why “Kwibuka” has become the official ...

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda and France have turned over a new leaf in relations marked by a "dark history", the two countries' foreign ministers said, following a dispute over events surrounding ...

The murder of 500,000 Tutsi and Hutu opposition in Rwanda is genocidal murder. This event is one of many cases of genocide in the 20th century. The events in Rwanda in 1994 pose many moral questions ...

NYAMATA, Rwanda — Rachel Mukantabana was a teenager when the devastating genocide in Rwanda unfolded. "I was 15 years old and I knew exactly what was happening," she told NPR. "Even a five-year-old ...