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EVERY YEAR on April 7th Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, commemorates the start of the most abominable event of the late 20th century, the Rwandan genocide. Over 100 days in 1994 masses of the ...

From April to July 1994, the world watched as genocide unfolded in Rwanda. A million people died as neighbors brutally attacked their neighbors with clubs and machetes. Thirty years later, the horror ...

Dear Rwandans, dear friends of Rwanda, dear citizens of the world... Today, on this sacred occasion of Rwanda’s Heroes’ Day, we gather not merely to commemorate but to reflect, to be moved, and to be ...

(Nairobi) – Human Rights Watch announced today that it is releasing a series of archives highlighting the extraordinary efforts of human rights defenders in Rwanda and abroad, to warn about the ...

In 1994, Rwanda endured one of the darkest chapters in human history when nearly a million people lost their lives in just ...

Nestled in the heart of Africa within the Great Rift Valley, where the African Great Lakes region and southeast Africa converge is Rwanda, a beautiful Central Africa nation which was founded by King ...

To understand the background of events which shook Rwanda in 1994. To understand what genocide is. To understand the process and reasons which triggered the flow of refugees from Rwanda into ...

Rwanda is a beautiful nation in the heart of Africa within the Great Rift Valley, where the African Great Lakes region and southeast Africa converge. It takes pride in a rich literary history, with ...

And I'm Steve Inskeep. This week marks the 20th anniversary of Rwanda's genocide. Leaders of the country's Hutu majority encouraged the slaughter of the ethnic Tutsi minority. People killed their ...