In both cases the Tutsi and Hutu masses were used by the elites and ... It is an undeniable fact of history. It did not suffice to usher in a more democratic system beneficial to the masses.
That’s how I learned that I was a Tutsi. It meant I was a victim, a powerless person. The Hutu students were learning about the same divisions, but in a different context of history. Their ...
But shattering bonds between Hutu and Tutsi was not easy. For centuries they had shared a single language, a common history, the same ideas and cultural practices. They lived next to one another ...
thus reinforcing hatred and fear among Hutu and Tutsi alike. Without credible judgments by the courts, politicians seek to establish guilt by appealing to their own version of history. At one of ...
After 100 days of fighting between the two ethnic groups, the Tutsi militia defeated Hutu government forces, ending the war and the genocide. But the Hutus' three-month slaughter of Tutsis left ...
Both countries have long been dominated by their Tutsi minorities, leading to tensions with the Hutu majority. Many more are thought to have arrived in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide ...
interviews with US/UN officials and writer Philip Gourevitch; an update on justice in Rwanda today;and readings on genocide and Hutu/Tutsi relations over two centuries.
Uwineza and his three younger siblings were saved when a Hutu man hid them on his property ... Theology as Autobiography in Post-Genocide Rwanda. He reviews the history that led to the 1994 genocide ...
In one of history’s most brutal massacres in ... amid simmering ethnic tension between the minority Tutsi and the majority Hutu. It lasted three months, ending on July 19th when a new regime ...