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UN experts: Between 3,000 and 4,000 Rwandan troops are in Congo operating with the M23 rebel group
5 months, 1 week ago

UN experts: Between 3,000 and 4,000 Rwandan troops are in Congo operating with the M23 rebel group

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — Between 3,000 and 4,000 Rwanda government forces are deployed in neighboring eastern Congo, operating alongside the M23 rebel group which has been making major advances, U.N. experts said in a report circulated Wednesday. The Rwandan forces’ “de facto control and direction over M23 operations also renders Rwanda liable for the actions of M23,” the panel of experts …

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Rwanda’s leader is concerned over perceived US ambiguity about victims of the 1994 genocide
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Rwanda’s leader is concerned over perceived US ambiguity about victims of the 1994 genocide

Associated Press  

KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday he was concerned by what he saw as a U.S. failure to characterize the 1994 massacres as a genocide against the country’s minority Tutsis. Kagame told reporters that the issue was an “element of discussion” in talks with former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who led the American delegation to a ceremony …

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Rwanda’s leader is concerned about perceived U.S. ambiguity about victims of the 1994 genocide
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Rwanda’s leader is concerned about perceived U.S. ambiguity about victims of the 1994 genocide

LA Times  

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday he was concerned by what he saw as a U.S. failure to characterize the 1994 massacres as a genocide against the country’s minority Tutsis. Kagame told reporters that the issue was an “element of discussion” in talks with former U.S. President Clinton, who led the American delegation to a ceremony Sunday commemorating the 30th …

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Mass graves in Rwanda reveal cracks in reconciliation efforts, 30 years after the genocide
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Mass graves in Rwanda reveal cracks in reconciliation efforts, 30 years after the genocide

LA Times  

Children practice a fencing game this week on the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda, as the country prepares to mark 30 years since the genocide in which Hutu extremists killed hundreds of thousands, most of them Tutsis. The digging goes on, a scene that’s become all too familiar in a verdant area of rural southern Rwanda, where the discovery in October …

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Remembering the Rwandan genocide 30 years on – how did it happen?
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Remembering the Rwandan genocide 30 years on – how did it happen?

Al Jazeera  

Local media, in particular, were crucial in aiding the mass killings while world media either ignored or underplayed them. It has been three decades since the April 1994 Rwandan genocide when members of the majority Hutu ethnic group killed an estimated 800,000 minority Tutsis, moderate Hutus and members of a third ethnic group, the Twa, in one of the darkest …

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A guide to the decades-long conflict in DR Congo
10 months ago

A guide to the decades-long conflict in DR Congo

Al Jazeera  

The resource-rich country, now facing a major rebel attack, has been racked by conflict for more than 30 years. On October 24, 1996, the Tutsi-dominated AFDL in Kivu and troops of the Rwandan army launched offensives in eastern DRC, sparking the First Congo War. In response, Rwanda backed a new rebel group, the Rally for Congolese Democracy which launched a …

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Understanding Humanitarian Crisis Through a Film: A Conflict Theory Approach to Rwandan Genocide - News18
1 year, 1 month ago

Understanding Humanitarian Crisis Through a Film: A Conflict Theory Approach to Rwandan Genocide - News18

News 18  

Conflict is essentially an escalation of a disagreement, wherein conscious beings actively attempt to damage one another, on account of clashes of interest, opinions, principles or even needs. The situation where the Tutsis were trapped within the boundaries of the Ecole Technique, was a sort of static deadlock in the situation, where there was no direct physical violence going on, …

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UN experts: `Substantial evidence’ of Rwanda forces in Congo
2 years ago

UN experts: `Substantial evidence’ of Rwanda forces in Congo

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — U.N. experts say they found “substantial evidence” of Rwandan government forces crossing into neighboring eastern Congo, either to reinforce M23 rebels or to conduct military operations against another rebel group that includes fighters accused of taking part in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. The M23 rebels are largely Congolese ethnic Tutsis who became prominent 10 years ago when …

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Blinken calls for end to Congo violence, backs negotiations
2 years, 4 months ago

Blinken calls for end to Congo violence, backs negotiations

Associated Press  

KINSHASA, Congo — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that his country will support the efforts led by Kenya and Angola to put an end to the violence in Congo’s east and to help solve the central African nation’s crisis with Rwanda. “We call on the M23 and all other armed groups to cease their actions, lay down …

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Daughter of arrested ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero says he was ‘kidnapped’ in Dubai
4 years, 3 months ago

Daughter of arrested ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero says he was ‘kidnapped’ in Dubai

LA Times  

Paul Rusesabagina appears before the media at the Rwanda Bureau of Investigations headquarters in Kigali, Rwanda, on Monday. The man portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as saving the lives of more than 1,200 people from genocide was “kidnapped” while in Dubai, his daughter asserts, while a video shared by Rwandan authorities in support of his arrest on suspicion of …

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‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero, a critic of Rwandan government, arrested on suspicion of terrorism
4 years, 3 months ago

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero, a critic of Rwandan government, arrested on suspicion of terrorism

LA Times  

Paul Rusesabagina appears in front of media at the headquarters of the Rwanda Bureau of Investigations building in Kigali, Rwanda, on Monday. Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as a hero who saved the lives of more than 1,200 people during the country’s 1994 genocide, has been arrested by the Rwandan government on suspicion of terrorism, …

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