Former Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu, who has just been sentenced to 15 years in prison, is regarded by many as a symbol of reconciliation in the country. An ethnic Hutu, he was appointed to the ...

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.

Instituted nationally in 2005 by the Rwandan government, these citizen courts try Hutu accused of the 1994 slaughter of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu. In most cases the guilty are returned to ...

The international community is scrambling to organize a summit to prevent a resumption of the fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has displaced a quarter-million people in recent ...

Power changed between these two ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi. Up to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, the Hutu were in control of the Rwandan state and the Tutsi of the Burundian state.

A Congolese Hutu man in Goma, who asked to remain anonymous, tells the BBC how he lost his parents and why the report holds such importance for him. His story At the end of 1996 I was 14 years old ...

Dusabimana is a Hutu and she was a helper. She risked her life, and the life of her family, to help Tutsi men, women and children escape the country, as hundreds of thousands were killed in a ...

About 160,000 people in northeastern Congo displaced since January are at risk of attack from Hutu militia, said spokesman Ron Redmond. The seeds of the conflict date from the end of the Rwanda ...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked Rwanda's government for evidence to support its allegation that U.N. peacekeepers in Congo discussed collaboration with Hutu rebels linked to the 1994 ...