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In the month of April 1994, a nightmare was unleashed in the country of Rwanda. I remember that time, vaguely. I was living in Seattle, and some of the news stories that flowed out from Rwanda were ...

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 ...

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 ...

Desrosiers has written an excellent political history of authoritarianism in Rwanda before the 1994 genocide. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the country’s political history and, more ...

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 ...