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Beauty and the Beasts

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January 20th 2005
I don't think there was a single person on the truck that wasn't moved in some way by our visit to Rwanda. We were there to visit the mountain gorillas, but due to tensions between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda we couldn't take the direct route through Southwest Uganda, instead heading south to Kigali, and then back north to Ruhengiri. Rwanda (and SW Uganda) can surely lay claim ... read more

Africa » Rwanda

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In 1959, three years before independence from Belgium, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi king. Over the next several years, thousands of Tutsis were killed, and some 150,000 driven into exile in neighboring countries. T... ... read more