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Gustave Mukurarinda, a 42-year-old survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and author, carries a burden of memory and unanswered justice.
On July 15, 1994, an unprecedented 250,000 Rwandan refugees crossed from Gisenyi (now Rubavu) into Goma, in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo--DRC).
One of the genocides commemorated is the Rwandan genocide. April is Genocide Awareness Month. ... My oldest brother was brutally killed by the Interahamwe militia on May 23, 1994.
It's been 30 years since the Rwandan genocide. In some places today, ... But near the end of April, she said, hundreds of soldiers and Interahamwe — Hutu militia members — came.
Rwanda's president on Sunday led commemorations to mark 30 years since the 1994 genocide that killed more than 1 million people and said the conditions that led to the slaughter would never be ...
It's been 30 years since the Rwandan genocide began in 1994. In some places today, survivors of the genocide live side-by-side with perpetrators, so-called reconciliation villages.
The genocide started on April 6, 1994, when a plane carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana was shot down and crashed in the capital, Kigali, killing the leader who, like the majority of Rwandans ...
Gustave Mukurarinda, a 42-year-old survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and author, carries a burden of memory and unanswered justice. Born and raised in Nyanza District, Mukurarinda grew ...
NYAMATA, Rwanda — Rachel Mukantabana was a teenager when the devastating genocide in Rwanda unfolded. "I was 15 years old and I knew exactly what was happening," she told NPR.
It's been 30 years since the Rwandan genocide. In some places today, survivors live side-by-side with perpetrators in so-called reconciliation villages. "I was 15 years old and I knew exactly what ...