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Peter Ruti

Peter Ruti

Voters queue to cast their ballots during Rwanda’s Constitutional Referendum at Kimihurura Primary School on May 26, 2003. (The New Times)

RPF and rebuilding of Rwanda’s administrative structures after 1994

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) forces

Why the RPF emerged as post-Genocide Rwanda's dominant force

Friday, September 18, 2026

RPF-Inkotanyi members voted for new leaders at the 16th National Congress on Sunday, April 2. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza

The RPF automatic integration into the transitional national assembly

Tuesday, September 08, 2026

Rwandans queuing for casting their votes during the presidential elections in 2003 at Groupe Scolaire ADEPR Kimihurura in Kigali on on August 25, 2003. File

How Rwanda rebuilt its political, governance system after 1994

Monday, August 31, 2026

Photographs of former Rwandan leaders from the period of the Genocide against the Tutsi, archived at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. Photo by Kellya Keza.

Double genocide narrative distort Rwanda's history and memory

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Some pictures of young kids who were killed in the Genocide against the Tutsi. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Genocide denial: A deliberate strategy to distort history

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Mourners commemorate the Genocide against the Tutsi at Murambi Genocide Memorial in 2017 . Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Revisionism and negationism as integral parts of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi

Wednesday, August 05, 2026

French soldiers in Rwanda, ten days after the start of Operation Turquoise. © HOCINE ZAOURAR ARCHIVES. AFP.

RPF investigators preserved evidence of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi

Thursday, July 30, 2026

The death of President Habyarimana created a sense of surprise and shock among the Rwandan population, as well as fury among certain soldiers.

RPF’s diplomacy prevailed over denial of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

An artwork depicting Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) soldiers rescuing Tutsi who had sought refuge inside a church during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Photo by Sam Ngenda.

How RPF stopped the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi

Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Interahamwe during a training under the inspection of French Army in 1990s. The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda was driven by decades of systematically developed ideological propaganda.

The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi was driven by ideological propaganda

Wednesday, July 01, 2026

Léon Mugesera addresses a gathering in Kabaya in November 1992. His speech is considered among the most notorious examples of pre-genocide hate rhetoric. Courtesy

Weaponising fear and resentment to commit genocide against the Tutsi

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Mourners attend a night vigil at Kinazi Genocide Memorial in Ruhango District during the commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Located in the former Amayaga region, according to Genocide survivors, Kinazi was among the areas where many Tutsi were killed by some Burundian Hutu refugees during the Genocide. Phot by Sam Ngendahimana

1994 Genocide against the Tutsi found favourable ground in the Burundian crisis

Monday, June 15, 2026

The death of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye on October 21, 1993, was used by Hutu extremists in Rwanda as a powerful propaganda tool to justify the dehumanisation of the Tutsi in Rwanda

How extremists used Ndadaye’s death to fuel 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi

Thursday, May 28, 2026

The signing of the Arusha Peace Agreement on August 4, 1993.

Inside the extremist politics that undermined the Arusha Accords

Friday, May 22, 2026

Former President of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana during Arusha Peace Accord. Courtesy

Resistance to the Arusha Peace Accord and the descent into Genocide

Thursday, May 14, 2026

Visitors learn about the role of media during the Genocide against the Tutsi during a tour of the Kigali Genocide Memorial. File photo.

Media propaganda and the mobilisation against the Tutsi

Wednesday, May 06, 2026

French soldiers who were in operation turquoise. Internet

Kwibuka 32: France and the reorganisation of Rwanda’s interim government in exile

Wednesday, April 22, 2026