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Made-up and enforced ethnic groups created hatred among Rwandans. HP.1977.23.549, collection RMCA Tervuren; photo P. Laval (Inforcongo), 1960 © RMCAP. Laval
Rwanda

‘I am no longer Tutsi like you’- the Belgian long-thought plan to divide Rwandans through made-up ethnicity

Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Vincent Karega, the former ambassador to DR Congo and current ambassador-designate to Belgium, on October 2022.File Photo
Africa

Belgium’s blind spot in a Diplomatic Impasse

Tuesday, November 05, 2024
King Yuhi V Musinga gives an audience to two people with a disagreement, but with the supervision of a Belgian colonial administrator. EP.0.0.6127, collection MRAC Tervuren ; photo E. Gourdinne, 1918

The downfall of Yuhi V Musinga: Erosion of power and forced exile

Friday, November 01, 2024
Former French President François Mitterrand, who played a particularly egregious role in enabling genocidaires, was once quoted as saying “In countries like that, genocide is not too important" by French daily Le Figaro. Net photo

Understanding Western racism and colonial legacy in context of the Genocide against the Tutsi

Thursday, October 24, 2024
Independent presidential candidate Philippe Mpayimana has pledged to institute legal action against countries responsible for Rwanda’s tragic past. File
Elections

Mpayimana pledges to sue Belgium, Germany, France over Rwanda’s tragic past

Friday, July 12, 2024
Georges Kamanayo, one of the victims abduction of mixed-race children by the Belgian Government.
Crime

The untold tragedy of Rwandan Colonial Métis six decades later

Monday, June 24, 2024
President Paul Kagame greets thousands of RPF Inkotanyi members during the party's legislative rally in Gisagara District on August 23, 2018. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Letters

People of value are always the subject of criticism

Thursday, June 06, 2024
The New Times

Look who is blaming Rwanda for messed up DR Congo! Some people have no shame

Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Speaker of Parliament Donatille Mukantabana is helped to light a candle in memory of Genocide victims interred at Nyanza Genocide Memorial in Kicukiro District on Thursday, April 11. Nyanza memorial is the final resting place of over 100,000 victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi. DAN KWIZERA

How the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi became the fruit of a populist Nazi-style ideology

Friday, April 12, 2024
The New Times

To be a force for good in Congo, the U.S must come clean about the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Saturday, April 06, 2024
A view of the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, Belgium. PHOTO BY GLORY IRIBAGIZA
Culture

Belgium: AfricaMuseum seeks to redress historical injustices

Friday, December 01, 2023
King Yuhi V Musinga gives an audience to two people with a disagreement, but with the supervision of a Belgian colonial administrator. EP.0.0.6127, collection MRAC Tervuren ; photo E. Gourdinne, 1918
Rwanda

‘Rebellion’ beyond baptism: Yuhi V Musinga's struggle against Belgian colonists

Wednesday, November 22, 2023