The unprecedented violence and mass killings of Tutsi and non-extremist Hutu were carried out over 100 days between April and ...

During the 1994 genocide, Hutu militia groups in Rwanda systematically raped thousands of Tutsi women; an estimated 20,000 children were born as a result. Many of the mothers also contracted HIV/AIDS ...

Throughout the genocide, Tutsi women were often raped, tortured and mutilated before they were murdered. The density of the administrative and political hierarchies, characteristic of Rwanda for ...

Among the survivors is Immaculee Ilibagiza, an inspiring Tutsi woman who hid from Hutu attackers. Along with six other women, Ilibagiza was crammed into a tiny bathroom for three months, often within ...

Nshimiye allegedly participated in the killing of Tutsi men, women, and children by striking them on the head with a nail-studded club and then hacking them to death with a machete. Nshimiye has ...

A former Rwandan women's minister has been sentenced to life in prison for her role in the genocide and the rape of Tutsi women and girls. Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, 65, is the first woman convicted ...