HutuTutsigeographyeconomicspoliticsThe scenario of genocidal war that broke out in 1994 in Burundi and Rwanda is the worst of its kind that ever happened on the African continent. The war broke odoi:10.2139/ssrn.2689413Saidi, Mpawenimana Abdallah...
This sparked a mass killing of 30,000 Tutsi by Hutu villagers, an event that would have a lasting effect on Burundian society. The first large-scale exodus of Hutu began almost immediately; many of the refugees settled in the Lukole refugee camp in neighboring Tanzania. Within this context ...
As noted above, Edouard Mwangachuchu is the President of the CNDP, formerly a non-state armed group particularly associated with elite Tutsi interests. Robert Seninga, the COOPERAMMA President, has been associated with the Hutu armed group Nyatura (Schouten, 2022; Atanasijevic, 2016) there are...
Peace and Security (WPS). From a German perspective, the event was particularly relevant as it was organized during the German presidency of the Security Council and chaired by our foreign minister Heiko Maas. Despite some difficulties with the names of people and organizations (watchhere), the...
The 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda left about one million people dead in a period of only three months. The present study aimed to examine the level of trauma exposure, psychopathology, and risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in survivors and former prisoners accused of...
surrounding countries, so mining these minerals doesn’t usually help fund armed conflict.But 67% of the world’s tantalumcomes from the DRC and Rwanda. And the eastern DRC, where these minerals are found, is mired in violence stemming from historical tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic...
Nkunda himself is now under house arrest after a deal between Congo and his suspected Rwandan backers. But many other figures still abound.The FDLR, a Hutu rebel group, is also active in DRCongo and is a target of MONUC. The group has some 4,000 soldiers and controls a number of ...
led for the first half by the main Tutsi party and for the second half by the main Hutu party, and overseen by the top U.N. official in Burundi—the U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG)—who would serve as the head the Arusha Agreement’s Implementation Monitoring...
Nkunda, a Congolese Tutsi, says he is simply trying to protect Tutsis from Hutu militias in Congo's vast eastern province. According to news reports, the United Nations has accused Rwanda of providing arms to Nkunda's forces. Ambassador Sezibera dismissed the claims and questioned the U.N....
After a short description of the relations between the dominant Tutsi ethnic group (14-16%) and the subordinate Hutu ethnic group (80-85% of the population) before, during and aafter the colonial period, the sections are? the impact of the 1953 Hutu revolt in Rwanda - political decay and...