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.

The president and his close colleagues decided, however, to exaggerate the RPF threat as a way to pull dissident Hutu back to his side and they began portraying Tutsi inside Rwanda as RPF ...

At least 95 percent of my village was farmers. I would never know the difference between Hutu and Tutsi if I did not learn it from school, family and peers. School was the first place that taught ...

It is one of the most shameful stories of the post-Cold War world. One million Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutu majority in Rwanda while the West turned a blind eye. As the U.N.s Genocide ...

Over the ensuing 100 days, extremist militias of the majority Hutu ethnic group systematically slaughtered the minority Tutsis, killing anywhere from 500,000 to one million civilians. The Rwandan ...

The almost eternal cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, is fuelling a widespread violence, mass ...

About 800,000 people – the vast majority from the Tutsi community - were slaughtered by ethnic Hutu extremists. The genocide ended with the advance of a force of Tutsi-led rebels commanded by ...

The origins of the M23 are rooted in noble intentions for it claims to protect the minority Tutsis from Hutu ethnic militias. The group was formed in 2012 by some members of the National Congress ...

The RED-Tabara armed group operates out of the DRC’s volatile eastern region, which shares a porous 243km border with Burundi. Rwanda shapes conflict in the region by using the Congolese Tutsi ...