Barankitse lived through two genocides and has dedicated her life to helping orphaned children and Burundian refugees.

Dusabimana is a Hutu and she was a helper. She risked her life, and the life of her family, to help Tutsi men, women and children escape the country, as hundreds of thousands were killed in a ...

Burundi is urging the United Nations to officially recognize the mass killings of Hutus in 1972–1973 as a genocide, over five decades after the violence claimed tens of thousands of lives. Speaking at ...

There's no more Hutu, no more Tutsi — we are all Rwandan." All Rwandan, all now living under the shadow of a brutal history that pitted neighbor against neighbor.

The Hutu masses were used as pawns to further the interests of Hutu elite and Belgian colonialists. The contention that the masses follow whatever moves expresses what happened in Rwanda.

Genocide survivor Jeanette Nyirabashyitsi, 45, left a Tutsi, greets Frederick Kazigwemo, a Hutu who was jailed for nine years for genocide-related crimes in the reconciliation village of Mbyo, in ...

“Witnesses alleged that the defendant, as a leader, encouraged Hutu men to rape Tutsi women as a genocidal tool,” federal prosecutors wrote. Nsabumukunzi applied for refugee status in the U.S ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

During that stay, Rwanda’s Hutu government would not renew his passport, so he remained in the States through the civil war and genocide, finally conceding to the inevitable in the summer of ...

Nsabumukunzi also encouraged Hutu men to to rape Tutsi women. “He was somewhat of a local figurehead,” assistant U.S. attorney Samantha Alessi told the Times.

And after independence in 1962 brought a Hutu-dominated government, many Tutsis, including Kagame's family, fled into exile. Years of periodic upheaval ensued.