Women, children targeted in renewed Congo clashes - Chicago Tribune
24 May 2012, 6:57 pm
"All these areas which are without the army, without protection, have been seized again by the (hutu rebel group) FDLR," said Jean Luc Mutokambali, a parliamentarian from the region and member of the ruling coalition. "That's leading to self ...

George Monbiot: the new Christopher Hitchens? - Daily Telegraph Blogs
23 May 2012, 2:16 am
The Politics of Genocide seeks to downplay or dismiss both the massacre of Bosniaks at Srebrenica in 1995 and the genocide of Tutsis committed by hutu militias in Rwanda in 1994. Their claims are extraordinary: that the cause of death of the ...

Fighting in eastern DR Congo kills 100 in a week - Tehran Times
22 May 2012, 1:02 pm
A feud between Rwandan hutu rebels and the Mai Mai militia in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last week left more than 100 people dead, including civilians, a local activist said Tuesday. "A week ago, the Mai Mai attacked the FLDR ...

20 children reportedly slain in recent eastern Congo violence - Los Angeles Times
22 May 2012, 12:40 pm
Eleven U.N. peacekeepers were severely injured after protesters upset by the hutu attacks surrounded their Congo base. "What is most alarming is the commonplace nature of violence on civilian populations and aid actors,” Doctors Without ...

My fight may be hopeless, but it is as necessary as ever - The Guardian
21 May 2012, 3:12 pm
The Politics of Genocide seeks to downplay or dismiss both the massacre of Bosniaks at Srebrenica in 1995 and the genocide of Tutsis committed by hutu militias in Rwanda in 1994. Their claims are extraordinary: that the cause of death of the "vast majority ...

ICC prosecutor seeks Congo militia chief’s arrest - DAWN Group
15 May 2012, 9:17 pm
Rwanda’s 1994 genocide began hours after a plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana — a member of the hutu ethnic group — was mysteriously shot down as it approached the capital, Kigali, on April 6, 1994. The 100-day slaughter that ...

Does a Better Memory Equal Greater PTSD Risk? - Time
14 May 2012, 6:55 pm
Around 800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days during the genocide, when hutu militias and gangs attacked the minority Tutsi population and those sympathetic to them. Thirty-nine percent of the refugees had current symptoms of post-traumatic ...

Seven U.N. peacekeepers shot at Congo protest - msnbc.com
14 May 2012, 1:33 pm
The United Nations said the protest was against attacks by Rwandan hutu rebel FDLR forces in the area, and it suspected that local Mai Mai militia shot at the blue helmets from within the crowd. Reinforcements have been sent to the area ...

Official: Rwandan hutu rebels attack village in eastern Congo, kill at least 20 - Washington Post
14 May 2012, 12:00 pm
KINSHASA, Congo — A government official in eastern Congo says rebels armed with machetes have killed at least 20 people in an attack on a village. Marcellin Cishambo, the governor of South Kivu province, blamed the attack on Rwandan hutu ...

An alternative approach for African media - China Daily
9 May 2012, 3:37 am
The possibility of a renewed hutu-Tutsi war is never too far from the surface. It must be remembered that the media was used in the Rwanda to whip up deep-seated ethnic hatred, and this ethnic hatred was first planted through the divide and rule policies ...