Hutu Muslims saved Tutsis during Rwandan genocide
Rwanda has been marking the 15th anniversary of the country’s genocide when according to the government 1.2 million people were killed, the UN says 800,000 died, most of those murdered were ethnic Tutsis.
During that genocide, tens of thousands of Tutsis fled into Muslim mosques to escape from the machete-wielding Hutu mobs.
And their lives were spared because many Hutus believed Muslims were evil and were afriad to go into mosques.
Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege tells the story of survivors who narrowly escaped death, and the Islamic resistance to the genocide.
Philippines marks massacre anniversary
Four decades later, an incident known as the Jabidah massacre, continues to haunt the Philippines.
No-one is sure how many trainee soldiers, most of them Muslims, died when a plan to attack the Malaysian state of Sabah leaked out and authorities moved to destroy the evidence.
Now pressure is growing on the government to account for the past, as Al Jazeera’s Marga Ortigas reports.
