A look back at my visit to Rwanda, 18 years after the genocide
By Perry Beeman | April 07, 2012 | Rwanda
Today marks the 18th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, which claimed the lives of as many as 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. In 2009, I spent weeks in Rwanda on a fellowship with the International Reporting Project. I was there in large part to examine the country’s surprisingly environmental efforts, but I took time to visit genocide memorials and to try to understand the depth of what happened.
To mark this anniversary, I’d like to share a blog post I wrote in 2009 after visiting one of the church’s where Tutsis went for safety, only to be slaughtered by Hutus determined to kill all Tutsis.
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