General United Nations Headquarters 405 East 42nd Street New York, NY, 10017 Dear Mr. Secretary-General: We, writers, artists, journalists, lawyers, researchers, civil society members, Genocide ...

A coalition of over 400 intellectuals, artists, and human rights advocates from more than 50 countries is pressing the United Nations to address the escalating persecution of Congolese Tutsi in ...

Perhaps more importantly, it contains some of the world’s largest deposits of key minerals, such as cobalt, which is ...

That being said, experts and organisations like the UN have documented decades of discrimination against Congolese Tutsis and the Banyamulenge - a Tutsi sub-group concentrated in the South Kivu ...

Canada criticized Rwanda for its role in the Congo conflict, calling it 'shameful,' and suspended trade and technology ...

Pressure intensified as Tutsi militias organized against the Hutu groups and as foreign powers began taking sides. Following the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) victory against the genocidal ...

The European Parliament urged the European Union on Thursday to freeze direct budget support for Rwanda until it breaks links ...

When Rev. Marcel Uwineza, S.J., a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, was invited to give remarks at a recent commemoration of the event, he was asked to provide a photo of his ...

Raised by parents of the Tutsi ethnic group, Makenga quit school at the age of 17 to join a Tutsi rebel outfit across the border in Rwanda. This group, named the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF ...

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 ...

In October 1990 the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a movement led by children of Tutsi who had fled the 1959 revolution, attacked Rwanda from Uganda. They claimed they were fighting for the right ...