Word: rwanda
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...Rwanda's judicial system was crippled by the genocide, as a vast majority of its judges were either perpetrators or victims of the slaughter...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, adressing a full house at the Institue of Politics yesterday evening, faced repeated questions from the audience about the current Congo War as he tried to keep the talk focused on Rwanda's recent strides in its justice system and women's rights...
Kagame gave a short speech on his nation's domestic progress since Rwanda's 1994 genocide--in which Hutu extremists slaughtered as many as one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 90 days--that propelled the central African nation to the forefront of internationl news...
...lengthy question and answer period followed Kagame's 15 minute speech. Many of the questions from the audience focused on Rwanda's current involvement in the Congo War, a subject Kagame did not address in his remarks...
...laud you for trying to reconstruct your country," said Masuda Bundu, a Congolese man in the audience. "But there are over two million people dead [in Congo], most of them children. That is a genocide, and a greater one than that in Rwanda. Since the Congo did not attack you, why do you have the right to do this...