NewsTracker Answers for week of May 18, 2020

Q: A man accused of funding the militias that massacred about 800,000 people in Rwanda was arrested Saturday in France after 26 years on the run. Where is the small nation of Rwanda, about 50 miles west of Africa’s large Lake Victoria?

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Q: Felicien Kabuga, 84, is charged with genocide for arming ethnic Hutu militia members with machetes used to kill members of the rival Tutsi ethnic minority over a period 100 days in 1994. Kabuga had been living under an assumed name in a suburb of France’s capital . . .

A. Brussels

B. Geneva

C. Paris

D. The Hague


C. Kabuga was living in a flat in Asnieres-Sur-Seine which is about 5 miles from the center of Paris. Besides supplying machetes and paying the militias, Kabuga is accused of establishing a radio station that fanned ethnic hatred against Rwanda’s Tutsis, told Hutus where Tutsis were to be found and offered advice on how to kill them.


Q: Kabuga will be turned over for trial in The Hague. The Hague is in which nation?

A. Belgium

B. Netherlands

C. Rwanda

D. Switzerland


B. The Hague is the seat of government of the Netherlands and hosts the International Court of Justice. But, Kabuga will be tried in The Hague by a special criminal tribunal set up by the United Nations to deal with remaining cases in the Rwandan genocide and the wars in the former Yugoslavia.


Q: The bodies of some 1994 genocide victims were carried by the Kagera River into Lake Victoria which feeds the Nile River. The ultimate source of the Nile is a still undetermined tributary of the Kagera either in Rwanda or its southern neighbor . . .

A. Burundi

B. DR Congo

C. Tanzania

D. Uganda


A. German forces conquered the region that is now Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania in the late 19th century. After the defeat of Germany in World War I, Belgium and Britain split up the colony of German East Africa. Britain took what is now Tanzania while Belgium took what became the small nations of Rwanda and Burundi in 1962.


Q: Violence between ethnic groups is not uncommon in African nations which were once European colonies. At least 20 civilians were killed Sunday by machete-wielding ethnic militiamen in which neighbor of Rwanda?

A. Burundi

B. DR Congo

C. Tanzania

D. Uganda


B. The attack was the latest incident in a surge of ethnic violence in that has forced 200,000 people to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the last two months. DR Congo is east of Rwanda and Burundi, and it also was a Belgian colony. Uganda to the north like Tanzania to the west was a British colony.