Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Since President Paul Kagame won the August 25, 2003 elections--Rwanda's first ... history since 1990 recognize that these accusations are minor compared to the challenges he has overcome. When the ...

The order triggered what was to become the first Congo War. Rwanda, Uganda ... one of the most audacious military operations in modern history, Operation Kitona, described by a U.S. military ...

M23 claims it is fighting for the rights of ethnic Tutsis in the DRC, and that it’s engaging in a “defensive” war ... He said, “History shows that reining in M23 and its Rwandan ...

Yet the war ... Rwanda, as part of the group’s decade-long campaign to control the region’s mineral-rich territory. The assault on Goma resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths in the first week ...

Judi Rever is a Montreal-based journalist and author of In Praise of Blood, which investigates mass violence under Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime, using survivor testimonies, former ...

Now, three decades on and Rwanda ... history, the cruelty they inflicted upon each other was horrific. “The tension between Rwandan soldiers and the Australians was often at a flashpoint.” The ...

History has a cruel way of repeating itself when lessons are ignored, warnings are dismissed, and moral responsibility is replaced with self-serving geopolitics. The 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters ... fears of a wider regional war. Bolstered by thousands of Rwandan troops, the M23 rebels first captured Goma in January before seizing ...

A relative, Tantine, tells us who is to blame: M23 rebels - backed by Rwanda and battling ... a new regional war, with implications far beyond Africa. Either way - if history is any guide ...