Links to Rwanda fuel discrimination against DR Congo's Tutsis
Central to their campaign is the assertion that ethnic Tutsis living in DR Congo are being persecuted. Digging into the ...
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Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Pressure intensified as Tutsi militias organized against the Hutu groups and as foreign powers began taking sides. Following the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) victory against the genocidal ...
‘Bisesero: A Daughter’s Story:’ Eugene Boateng Joins Pan-African Rwanda Genocide Drama — EFM
Bisesero: A Daughter’s Story will recount the little-known true story of the Bisesero Resistance, in which tens of thousands ...
Congo rebels promise security in Bukavu after looting
Residents of eastern Congo's second-largest city on Monday surveyed the aftermath of widespread looting that accompanied the ...
Idris Elba Goes to War in This Eye-Opening Historical Drama Now Streaming on Max
Now streaming on Max, Raoul Peck’s 2005 biographical film Sometimes in April, starring Idris Elba, takes a different swipe at ...
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Can Rwanda’s war against colonial ideology spark Africa’s renaissance?
Since the African continent was divided at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, the struggle for its wealth has played out on two fronts. The first was political, as European powers, starting with King ...
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Rwanda: Global Double Standards Are Existential Threats to Tutsi in Great Lakes Region
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has become a theater of state-sponsored systematic extermination of a people--right under the gaze of a supposedly humane international community.
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Healing the wounds
When Rev. Marcel Uwineza, S.J., a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, was invited to give remarks at a recent commemoration of the event, he was asked to provide a photo of his ...
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The DR Congo rebel leader whose fighters have created turmoil
Raised by parents of the Tutsi ethnic group, Makenga quit school at the age of 17 to join a Tutsi rebel outfit across the border in Rwanda. This group, named the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF ...
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Rwandan-backed rebels enter Congo's Goma in major escalation
Ethnic Tutsi-led M23 rebels enter city of Goma Fighting continues amid conflicting claims about M23 advance Congo and UN accuse Rwanda of sending troops into Goma Conflict stems from Rwanda ...
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The Genocide
The president and his close colleagues decided, however, to exaggerate the RPF threat as a way to pull dissident Hutu back to his side and they began portraying Tutsi inside Rwanda as RPF ...
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The Immediate Crises: Internal Opposition and War
In October 1990 the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a movement led by children of Tutsi who had fled the 1959 revolution, attacked Rwanda from Uganda. They claimed they were fighting for the right ...