Rwanda

Articles

Background to Rwanda by Stuart Hodkinson (May 2004)

Ten years ago, beginning on 6 April 1994, more than one million Rwandans were massacred in a three-month bloodbath. The dead were mainly Tutsis, the minority ethnic group in Rwanda who made up about 14 percent of the then eight million population. All were unarmed civilians. Their killers, extremists from Rwanda’s ruling Hutu majority, had embarked on a premeditated mission: to exterminate an entire people. But it was not only Tutsis who suffered. Tens of thousands of moderate Hutus were also slaughtered because they were political opponents of the one-party Hutu state and natural obstacles to the genocide.

Uncovering the financiers of the genocide by Eric Toussaint (May 2004)

Ten years ago, beginning on 6 April 1994, more than one million Rwandans were massacred in a three-month bloodbath. The dead were mainly Tutsis, the minority ethnic group in Rwanda who made up about 14 percent of the then eight million population.

From bloodbath to whitewash by Mark Curtis (March 2004)

April 2004 is the tenth anniversary of the genocide that killed a million Rwandans. Mark Curtis describes Britain’s role in the slaughter