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The Stuff of Nightmares
May 28th 2008 “It’s time to cut down the tall trees…” and with these words on 6 April 1994, a genocide of brutal ferocity and speed was inflicted upon the people of Rwanda. "Tall trees" was the code word for a carefully calculated campaign that saw one million people butchered by the crudest of weapons - mostly the machete - within 100 days. With the exception of the only two agencies that remained in
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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 COMING SOON HOUSE ADVERTISING ads_leader_photo_bottom
richard
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good photos
i always wanted to visit Rwanda to see for myself the atrocities of the human mind to others, i hope other generations will learn the bitter lesson of the past and love humanity and spread good will to all people.