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 ...
Your story in this week’s issue, “Cattle Praise Song,” begins with a long tribute to the central role that cows used to play in Tutsi culture in Rwanda. Was this a culture you experienced as a child?
Most of us might be accustomed to the 1994 Rwandan genocide popularized by the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda in which the shooting down of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was used as a signal to ...
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 ...
Nearly 25 years after the genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda took the lives of up to one million victims, the offspring of Tutsi survivors, who weren't even born at the time, are among those most ...
Please see the important note for details. Due to COVID-19, the traditional commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide Against the ...
If anyone has, or knows of, Tutsi genotypes that I could analyze for the African Ancestry Project, could you please email me at africanancestryproject-at-gmail-dot-com? I want to ascertain the extent ...
This is one of the unknowns of the trial that starts 29 September: 89-year-old Kabuga’s health status. In France, where he has lived in recent years and where he was arrested in May 2020, his lawyers ...
Both Democratic and Republican administrations consistently condemn Holocaust and genocide denial. It is ironic, then, that beginning with the Obama administration and continuing through Trump’s term, ...
Thirty-five years may seem like a long time for someone, but in the history of a country or a region, it is a short period. What is happening today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the AFC ...
As the Ministry of Education held a commemoration event to honor 77 of its former employees who were killed in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Egide Kayitare shared a testimony about the ...