In pre-colonial times, the Tutsis, aristocratic landowners, tyrannized Hutu farmers. In 1959, Hutus rebelled and murdered tens of thousands of the Tutsi elite. Rwanda won independence in 1962.

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In 1994, as many as one million people – overwhelmingly Tutsi, but also Hutu and others who opposed the genocide – were systematically killed in 100 days of the atrocities, and thousands more ...

Maps can shape how we see conflict. In the lead-up to the Rwandan genocide in 1994, extremist Hutu media outlets produced maps that categorised Rwandans by ethnicity: Hutu and Tutsi. These maps ...

The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu extremists killed an estimated one million minority ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in ...

In the past month alone, three people asked me if I was Hutu or Tutsi after I told them I was Rwandan. One of them was a white elderly man who was just walking by as I was chit chatting with ...

Maps, although seemingly objective representations of the world, hold immense power. They shape our understanding of space, navigate our journeys and define political boundaries. But beneath the ...

Hutus had been preparing to eradicate the Tutsi people for years, explained Thacien, who participated in several Hutu meetings some years before, but “1994 was the official genocide”, he said ...

The genocide of my people began when I was 5 years old. Over the period of 100 days Hutu forces set out to exterminate Tutsis. My family was attacked by local police, and in a way, that was lucky.

The Hutu president’s death gave rise to a frenzy of hatred, fuelled by virulent anti-Tutsi propaganda. Almost as soon as it was over, historians began to study how events unfolded.