Democratic Republic of Congo and The Rwandan genocide
The leader of a war-torn African nation has put a deal on the table for President Trump: Help his country defeat a powerful rebel force in exchange for access to a trove of minerals needed by U.S. high-tech firms.
In a Feb. 8 letter to Trump, Félix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, offered mining opportunities for the U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, an entity Trump had launched a few days earlier.
The latest clashes constitute aftershocks from the 31-year-old Rwandan genocide, in which ethnic Hutus slaughtered Tutsis by the hundreds of thousands.
When Tutsi forces under current Rwandan President Paul Kagame defeated their Hutu rivals in 1994, many Hutu extremists fled across the border into Congo.
Rwanda has denied providing military backing to M23, whose members are predominantly Tutsis, and says its only interest is in securing its own borders and protecting ethnic kinsmen from persecution in Congo.
Wall Street Journal 19 March 2025
The Rwandan genocide,
also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred between April and July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War.
Over the course of about 100 days, extremist elements of the Hutu majority orchestrated a campaign of mass violence against the Tutsi minority and moderate Hutu.
It is estimated that between 500,000 and 800,000 people were killed, and hundreds of thousands of women were subjected to sexual violence.
The genocide was triggered by the assassination of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, which created a power vacuum exploited by Hutu extremists.
Despite the scale of the atrocities, the international community largely failed to intervene.
The aftermath of the genocide left deep scars on Rwanda, but the country has since worked towards reconciliation and rebuilding. Public holidays and memorials commemorate the victims, and laws have been enacted to combat "genocide ideology".
It's a harrowing chapter in history, but one that underscores the importance of vigilance against hatred and division, skriver Copilot.
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