BUGESERA, Rwanda (AP) — Anastasie Nyirabashyitsi and Jeanette Mukabyagaju think of each other as dear friends. The women’s friendship was cemented one day in 2007, when Mukabyagaju, going ...

They weren’t praising Hutu women for their humanity, intelligence, or individuality. No, they were reducing them to reproductive machines and loyalty tokens.

30 years ago, this Rwandan woman saved a dozen neighbors from the genocide Josephine Dusabimana's story of being a helper, though those she helped worried for her safety. A Hutu, she was nearby ...

Hutu (African people) See more items in Ethel Mary Albert Papers Ethel Mary Albert Papers / Series 5: Photographic slides / 1-26 Land, settlement, and scenery ... Hutu woman in marshes, working, near ...

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 ...

She was a middle-aged woman who didn't have any weapons, she lived in a tiny hut, and Hutu forces were camped right in front of her house. All they had to do was open the door, that's all.

Women carry water in Gahanga the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda, April 4, 2024. An estimated 800,000 Tutsi were killed by extremist Hutu in massacres that lasted over 100 days in 1994.

Over three months in 1994, Hutu men methodically hunted down Tutsi men and women. Hutus burned down the homes of Tutsis, hacked them to death with machetes and raped them en masse. By July, around ...