Peter Ruti - The New Times

Peter Ruti

Peter Ruti

Bisesero Genocide Memorial. Accounts from the Bisesero resistance highlight the overwhelming imbalance between the number of killers and the victims, as well as the efforts by the Tutsi to resist. Sam Ngenda

Surrounded and outnumbered: Why resistance failed during the genocide

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Former UK Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region, Simon Mustard, during a tour of Kigali Genocide Memorial to learn the history of the Genocide against the Tutsi. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Tutsi massacres were strategised into phases marked by a timeframe

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

A visitor during a guided tour of Kigali Genocide Memorial to learn more about Genocide against the Tutsi. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana.

In executing the genocide against the Tutsi, human consciousness had disappeared

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

The New Times

The interim government perverted the state’s norms and values

Saturday, February 28, 2026

French troops trained the Interahamwe militia shortly before the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Bureaucracy and key individuals orchestrated the genocide against the Tutsi

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

On April 8, 1994, an interim government was installed, headed by Théodore Sindikubwabo, with Jean Kambanda from MDR Hutu Power as prime minister. The cabinet consisted of ministers from extremist factions supporting the genocidal plot.

The role of Rwanda’s interim government in Genocide

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Mourners listen to a genocide survivor as she shares her testimony during a commemoration event at Murambi Genocide Memorial in Nyamagabe District. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Tutsi massacres were generalised and systematised

Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Remains of the aircraft that was carrying former Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana. Courtesy

Habyarimana’s death was part of the genocide plan

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Visitors tour Kigali Genocide Memorial to learn more about Rwandan history. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Genocide masterminds played on people’s emotions

Friday, January 23, 2026

On April 6, 1994, the plane carrying Presidents Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi was shot down near Kanombe Airport, just beyond Masaka Village.

Conspiracy theories: Habyarimana’s death became a subject of hot debate

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Pictures of the victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi at Murambi Genocide Memorial in Nyamagabe District. Courtesy

When identity became a death sentence: The Genocide against the Tutsi

Thursday, January 08, 2026

Some of the 84439 bodies of genocide victims during a decent burial at Kicukiro-Nyanza Genocide memorial. Sam Ngendahimana

1994: How the term genocide was used in confusing manners

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Visitors during a tour of Kigali Genocide Memorial. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

How investigations uncovered the true scale of the Genocide against the Tutsi

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Former President of Rwanda General Juvenal Habyarimana

How the Habyarimana regime sustained colonial distortions

Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Grégoire Kayibanda

How Kayibanda’s regime made killings a political process

Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Former presidents of Rwanda Gregoire Kayibanda and Juvenal Habyarimana.

How post-independence regimes paved the way for Genocide in Rwanda

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Former President Juvenal Habyarimana and his delegation during Arusha Accords. File

How RPF warned Habyarimana regime against deviation from Arusha process

Thursday, November 20, 2025

President Juvenal Habyarimana used political polarisation as a weapon to block the process of peace negotiations with the opposition that included the RPF-Inkotanyi.

Of Habyarimana and his manoeuvres to frustrate Arusha Accords

Sunday, November 16, 2025