http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/grass-roots Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:05:32 -0400 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:05:32 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/106/triumph-over-tragedy-the-womens-movement-of-rwanda-finds-success-post-genocide By Marissa B. Goldfaden - On April 6, 1994, the Hutu[1] president of Rwanda and the newly elected president of Burundi, also a Hutu, were both assassinated when their jet was shot down while landing in Kigali. In response to the April killing of the two state presidents, over the next three months (April - July 1994) the Hutu-led military and Interahamwe militia groups killed about 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates in the Rwandan genocide. After the massacre ended, the Rwandan population was 70% female. While women were targets of torture, rape, and other forms of gender-based violence, the majority of those murdered were... Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:36 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/106/triumph-over-tragedy-the-womens-movement-of-rwanda-finds-success-post-genocide