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'Hotel Rwanda' Hero Accused of Funding Terrorism

(Oct. 28) -- Rwandan authorities have accused the man who saved more than 1,200 lives during the Rwandan genocide, and whose heroic deeds were later depicted in the 2004 Hollywood movie "Hotel Rwanda," of funding terrorism. That Oscar-nominated film told the true story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, who in 1994...

Rwanda Decries Genocide Reference in UN Report

UNITED NATIONS (Aug. 27) -- Rwanda has slammed the United Nations for a draft report that suggests Rwandan troops, who entered the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1994 to hunt down perpetrators of genocide in Rwanda, themselves committed massacres that could also be considered genocide. Describing the leaked draft as...

Background on hutus

The Hutu , also known as the Abahutu, are an ethnic group in Central Africa. They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where they form one of the principal population elements alongside the Tutsi and the Twa.

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