For decades, the French supported the Hutu regime even when it became Nazi-like in its racial nationalism. It may be difficult for Americans to comprehend such imperialistic motivations, but the main ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) – Burundians lined up before dawn Monday to vote on ...

Linda Melvern is the author of "A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide." In the course of a few terrible months in 1994, up to 1 million people were killed in Rwanda in a ...

The death of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye on October 21, 1993, was used by Hutu extremists in Rwanda as a powerful propaganda tool to justify the dehumanisation of the Tutsi and the planning ...

This violence destroyed the fragile alliance between the RPF and Hutu groups opposed to Habyarimana’s government. Appealing to Hutu youth enraged over these atrocities, the government-operated Radio ...

The Hutu Power movement, despite its well-known role in the horrific 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, has not disappeared. Instead, it has metamorphosed into a stealthier and deceptive force ...

In the course of a hundred days in 1994 the Hutu government of Rwanda and its extremist allies very nearly succeeded in exterminating the country's Tutsi minority. Using firearms, machetes, and a ...

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 ...

Burundi's president sealed a power-sharing deal aimed at ending the nation's eight-year civil war, just hours after Tutsi soldiers opposed to the deal mutinied Monday and kidnapped the army chief. The ...

KIGALI (Reuters) - Hutu extremists shot down the plane carrying former President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose assassination marked the start of the 100-day genocide in 1994, a government report said on ...