Rwandan Genocide Explained

Greed, Lust, Pride, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath! You might be surprised to learn the true history of the Seven Deadly Sins doesn't start in the bible. Rather, they were first thought up by a Greek monk in the 4th century who'd fled to the desert after becoming embroiled in a sca ...  Show more

An underground Nazi weapons factory and stash of 77-year-old Denazification files. What is it really like to discover that your grandfather was a member of the SS?In 2023, journalist Lorenz Hemicker joined us to tell the tale of his grandfather, who took part in the massacre of 2 ...  Show more

This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and sexual assault. Over the course of 100 days in 1994, it's estimated that between 500,000 and one million ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were killed by Hutu extremists in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Sparked by longstandi ...  Show more

Il y a 30 ans, le Rwanda s'est retrouvé au centre d'une des tragédies les plus effroyables du XXe siècle :  800 000 morts en 100 jours, soit une moyenne de 5 personnes tuées chaque seconde.  Un génocide aussi rapide qu’impitoyable qui a principalement ciblé la minorité Tutsi, ...

For 100 days in 1994 evil descended upon the small country of Rwanda. A long simmering conflict between Hutus and Tutsis boiled over after the country’s president died when his plane was shot down by a missile.Police stood by as approximately 800,000 people, mainly Tutsis were ki ...  Show more

Depuis le génocide de 1994 au Rwanda, des massacres de populations se déroulent dans l'est du Congo. Près de 10 millions de morts, une instabilité politique et diplomatique constante, dans une région qui aiguisent les appétits des puissances. Charles Onana a enquêté sur ces ma ...