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...Hutu slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda between April and July 1994 was so quick and wholesale, it has proved impossible to find all the dead or separate their remains. It is estimated that Rwanda lost 800,000 people in 100 days. Perhaps 2 million took part in the slaughter, this in a country of 8 million. The genocide museum in the capital Kigali concludes its description of 1994 with the words: "Rwanda was dead." As a Tutsi area, Nyamata was a crucible of the killing. It was where, in a series of practice massacres after 1990, that...
...scaled-back hopes of Africa these days. Call it realistic optimism. Delight is neither as optimistic as his grandfather was at independence nor as pessimistic as his mother. His generation has lived through the time of the Rwandan genocide, in which Hutu militias killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus; the brutality of Sierra Leone, with its arm-chopping gangs of child soldiers; the elemental fighting in Congo, beginning in the mid-'90s, known as Africa's First World War, a series of conflicts that killed 4 million people. But he and the millions of young Africans like him also...
...evil,” Rusesabagina said. Approximately 800,000 people were killed in 100 days during the genocide. Rusesabagina, who was made head of the Belgian-owned hotel soon after the genocide began, is seen as a hero for his role in guarding the 1,268 Tutsis and moderate Hutus who sought refuge at the hotel from the killings. As the vast majority of foreigners fled the country, Rusesabagina was twice given the opportunity to leave Rwanda, but he chose to stay. “If I leave tomorrow, I will never again in my life be a free...
Dallaire is best known for serving as the Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda from 1993 to 1994. During this time, more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by extremist Hutus in 100 days, while Dallaire’s calls for support from the developed world went unheeded...
...April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the President of Rwanda was shot down— setting off a collapse of the nascent Rwandan government. Extremist Hutus killed the Prime Minister and the 10 Belgian troops who were protecting her, and a campaign began to rid the country of Tutsi...