United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the commemoration of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
Two major genocides are being memorialized in April…the 1994 mass killings in Rwanda and the Armenian genocide of a century ago. A husband-and-wife team of researchers are now publishing oral testimonies from the Rwandan atrocities
During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, some 800,000 people – primarily ethnic Tutsis – died at the hands of ethnic Hutus. Blood flowed throughout the central African country – though less so in one remote northern town. VOA’s Edward Rwema reports~VOA NEWS
Uganda’s Rwandan community has commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, which saw over 800,000 people killed in 100 days of ethnic majority Hutus targeting minority Tutsis
Twenty-five years have passed since the Rwandan genocide that claimed the lives of an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus. As part of the long journey to reconciliation, an aid group established four model villages where genocide victims and perpetrators live side-by-side as neighbors and even friends
On the night of April 6, 1994 the plane Carrington the then President of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana and the President of Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira both Hutus was shotdown both were killed