Rwanda is a snall landlocked country in centrl-east Africa that is known as Pays des Milles Collines in French, a term that translates, the Land of a Thousand Hills. With a population of 10 million and the land are Rwanda supports the densest population in all of Africa.
Rwanda is also known for one of the great atrocities. Exactly 15 years ago Hutu extremists were on the verge of executing a Masterplan to eliminate Tutsis and moderate Hutus. It was a plan that was ambitious in its goal and undetected as far as its potential. April 5th 1994 was the eve of a great tragedy. One that still reverberates today although an international community that has a short attention span may be forgetting.
For the next 100 or so days I will be chronicalling the Rwndan genocide that occured in this exact time period back then. Why did it happen? How did it happen? How did the world react? Who is to blame? Anyone? Where does this leave us?
Many a questions, but how many answers will I get? I am not lost in the fact that I may not get answers but this series will be a form of rememberence and dedication to those who lost their lives for obscure reasons. These people had faces, hopes, dreams, families and futures. But these were denied them by their countrymen, a true tragedy. Atragedy that is not lost in the numbers, but one that must be highlighted. If anything to respect the lives of the dead...
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