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Global Double Standards Are Existential Threats to Tutsi in Great Lakes Region
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has become a theater of state-sponsored systematic extermination of a people--right under the gaze of a supposedly humane international ...
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Rwandan-backed rebels have seized another city in eastern Congo
Rwanda's government, meanwhile, has framed the conflict as the defense of ethnic Tutsis in eastern Congo from ethnic Hutu forces linked to the genocide in Rwanda three decades ago that killed some ...
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The DR Congo rebel leader whose fighters have created turmoil
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), were demanding greater Tutsi representation in ...
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Rwandan, Congolese leaders to meet over eastern DRC conflict
Rwanda accuses the DRC of sheltering the FDLR, an armed group created by ethnic Hutus who massacred Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The summit comes as the M23 advances on the town of ...
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The Rwandan Genocide Echoes in DR Congo Strife
The roots of the current conflict in the DRC can be traced directly to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when radical members of the Hutu ethnic group attacked their Tutsi neighbors, killing an estimated ...