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A day in the marshes
GENOCIDE STORIES
Thousands of people hid from the gangs of killers among the papyrus and mud of the marshes around the Nyabarongo River. Survivors and killers remember what it was like...
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As trouble escalated, terrified Tutsis gathered in the Catholic church in Ntarama, A few days later, on 11th April 1994, soldiers and militia attacked the compound. Alisa tells her story... more
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A good man
GENOCIDE STORIES
Olivier, a young Rwandan, talks about his grandfather.
"We know you're a good person but we have orders to kill you, so this is what we're going to do...
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Starting a genocide
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Whose idea was it?
A WAVE OF KILLING
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How did it start?
A WAVE OF KILLING
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The foreigners are leaving
A WAVE OF KILLING
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Hate radio
A WAVE OF KILLING
Details
Roadblocks
A WAVE OF KILLING
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The little things
A WAVE OF KILLING
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Insight
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A simple plan
HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN IT?
Who are these people and how could they do that? Ordinary Rwandans who participated in the killing talk about how it became possible to do the unthinkable... more
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This new job
HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN IT?
"We would wake up at six o'clock. We met up in town, where they would give us orders about the killings and our itineraries for the day, then off we went..." more
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This strangeness of mind
HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN IT?
"I do not recognise myself in the man that ran through the marshes.Perhaps someone outside this situation, like you, can't understand that strangeness of mind.... more
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Personalities
HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN IT?
"Some hunted slowly because they were afraid, some because they were lazy. Some struck quickly so as to go home early. It was each to his own personality.... more
Mzungus
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The role of the west
GENOCIDE STORIES
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Two French missionaries
GENOCIDE STORIES
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A journalist's story
GENOCIDE STORIES
The end of the genocide
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The refugee crisis
THE END OF THE GENOCIDE
Millions reached Tanzania, Zaire and Burundi. The UNHCR described it as the largest dislocation of a population they had ever seen. And they were fleeing more than revenge... more
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A country with nobody home
THE END OF THE GENOCIDE
This is the quiet of death and abandonment. I recall wave after wave of white butterflies, dancing in the indescribable quiet of a country where nobody was home.... more
Focus on the Bugesera
the Bugesera, Rwanda
The Bugesera
GENOCIDE STORIES
The story of the genocide is, in reality, seven million different stories. There were about 120,000 people living in the Nyamata district at the start of the genocide. In a little over six weeks only 50,000 were left. Five out of every six Tutsis had been killed.
These are a few of the stories from the people of the Bugesera…
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The Ntarama church massacre
GENOCIDE STORIES VIDEO
As trouble escalated, terrified Tutsis gathered in the Catholic church in Ntarama, A few days later, on 11th April 1994, soldiers and militia attacked the compound. Alisa tells her story... more
A day in the marshes
GENOCIDE STORIES VIDEO
Thousands of people hid from the gangs of killers among the papyrus and mud of the marshes around the Nyabarongo River. Survivors and killers remember what it was like...
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