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 ...

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 ...

In Rwanda, students may soon learn their national history for the first time since the 1994 genocide. Following the bloody ethnic conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu, the government imposed a ...

UNLIKE ANY other atrocities committed before it, the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi was transmitted to us in real time through the mass media. The World and the UN knew what was happening in Rwanda.

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