What if a genocide like the ones in Rwanda or in Srebrenica were to happen today? Would the global response be any different?

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Ohio State will host Kwibuka, an event commemorating the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Saturday. This Kwibuka is one of 34 events across the United States ...

It's been three decades since armed militias of Rwanda's Hutu ethnic majority murdered hundreds of thousands of the country's Tutsi minority in what is now widely regarded as one of the worst ...

In Rwanda, students may soon learn their national history for the first time since the 1994 genocide. Following the bloody ethnic conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu, the government imposed a ...

Women who were sexually assaulted, infected with diseases, and forced into exile, among other brutalities during the 1994 genocide against Tutsis, remain deeply scarred three decades later, and their ...

Rwanda and Burundi are nations that share not only geographic proximity but also intertwined histories. During the colonial era, they were joined under one administrative entity known as Rwanda-Urundi ...

The government’s efforts to preserve and promote its cultural heritage have entered the digital era, thanks to a group of young innovators developing a prototype platform to make the country’s museums ...

To understand the background of events which shook Rwanda in 1994. To understand what genocide is. To understand the process and reasons which triggered the flow of refugees from Rwanda into ...

The class of Rwandan teenagers stare back at him until, upon further prompting, one mumbles: "the massive killing of people." Teaching young people in Rwanda about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, ...

And I'm Steve Inskeep. This week marks the 20th anniversary of Rwanda's genocide. Leaders of the country's Hutu majority encouraged the slaughter of the ethnic Tutsi minority. People killed their ...