So asking if I am Hutu or Tutsi is irrelevant because it doesn’t explain my “origin” that you want to understand. Rwandans—regardless of being historically labeled Hutu, Tutsi, or Twa ...

He had friends who were Tutsi; his own mother was Tutsi. But by the early 1990s, extremist Hutu propaganda had started to spread in newspapers and on the radio, radicalizing Rwandans.

Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide against its minority Tutsi as new mass graves are still being discovered across the country in a grim reminder of the scale of the ...

Rwandan authorities have heavily promoted national unity among the majority Hutu and the minority Tutsi and Twa, with a separate government ministry dedicated to reconciliation efforts.

He assured Tutsis at public meetings that they’d be protected at the start of the genocide, then went into private Hutu-only meetings and urged them to start killing, the feds allege.

Rwanda’s majority Hutu have over time reported feeling more represented by a Tutsi-dominated government.

On the night of April 6, the Rwandan Armed Forces and the “Interahamwe” militia set up roadblocks and started going from house to house killing Tutsis and moderate Hutu politicians.

During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, Josephine Dusabimana smuggled ethnic Tutsis out of the country as neighbors attacked neighbors and almost a million people died.

Governance What 30 years of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority-led government in power says about ethnic representation Investment in public goods and better state capacity have led the country’s Hutu ...

The Hutu president’s death gave rise to a frenzy of hatred, fuelled by virulent anti-Tutsi propaganda. Almost as soon as it was over, historians began to study how events unfolded.

Over a 100-day spree, soldiers, police, militia and armed civilians from the Hutu ethnic majority killed Tutsis en masse, encouraged by local officials and government-sponsored radio demanding ...