Article: Two Rwandans sentenced to death for killing Tutsi royalty

Article: Kigali Government Killing Tutsi - Rights Watch.
Africa News Service;  April 28, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Kampala (The Monitor - Kampala, April 27, 2000) - The Rwandan government is using insecurity as a pretext to cover up human rights abuses against citizens, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The report details cases of assassination, murder, arbitrary detention, torture and other

Article: Abusive Language Used While Killing Tutsi - ...
Africa News Service;  April 13, 2009 ;     537 words ...Byline: Daniel Sabiiti Muhanga, Apr 13, 2009 (The New Times/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- A survivor who spoke at the Kabgayi genocide memorial recalled the utterances made by the Interahamwe militias during the time they went about slaughtering the Tutsi in Gitarama. Alexia Murorerwa, 38,

Article: Helen Codere, 91; anthropologist studied Rwanda, Pacific ...
The Boston Globe;  July 5, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... had been virtually no foreshadowing of the trouble that began in July following the unexpected death of the [King] Mwami Mutara III," and the resulting conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu. Her nephew recalled that while in Rwanda she was invited to meet ...

Article: Top Rwandan genocide suspect arrested.
UPI Energy Resources;  October 6, 2009 ;     498 words ... ... 1994 when he organized the slayings of thousands of Rwandan Tutsis, including Queen Rosalie Gicanda, wife of the late King Mutara III, the BBC reported. The BBC said Nizeyimana, head of the government's intelligence and military operations during the ...

Article: Witness Accuses Former Minister of Igniting Genocide in Butare.
Africa News Service;  October 25, 2004 ;     675 words ... ... deposed governor of Butare, Habyarimana Jean Baptiste", she recounted. Gicanda was the widow of Rwanda's former King Mutara III Rudahigwa. The witness, who is also a Tutsi, continued that her husband and children were also killed days later, though ...

Rwanda.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Rwanda's power structure that would give them a voice in the country's affairs commensurate with their numbers, and Hutu political parties were formed. In 1959, Mutara III died and was succeeded by Kigeri V. The Hutus contended that t

Article: Rwanda: Chapter 2B. Events Leading to Independence
Countries of the World;      700+ words ... ... motivated both Hutu and Tutsi to attempt to strengthen their positions. The sudden, unexpected, and mysterious death of Mwami Mutara III on July 24, 1959 initiated a period of intense political activity. Mutara was reported to have died after an injection of ...