a view enough some of the soldiers also returned to rwanda. but the majority of them withdrew into the interior of the congo to cool. the refugee camps were shut down after two years in exile almost ninety percent of the displaced hutus in congo then still there returned to rwanda. no country tolerate being attacked from its own borders every leader would probably have reacted the way koga me did there was a real and genuine threat to the knesset if it were. all suit the closure of the refugee camps was followed by the large waves of returning refugees moving westward . field beginning in one thousand nine hundred ninety six. talk pointed there were retaliatory attacks and acts of revenge and a new series of massacres to the south does it keep. the red cross and the u.n.h.c.r. had teams stationed on the ground. in force a c. look at the target refugees who came to them and sort of their needs to. prove. the force but they also had to dig mass graves for the dead. it's also to offer. well this new humanitarian disaster continued to unfold the t

eight in the lake kivu region between rwanda and the d.r. c. former asian o.c. there and armed hutu groups conducted renewed attacks on the tutsis now living there. they were led by general paul row aka b.j. . in the. summer one soldiers who had supported can be returned to their country to fight us from their. so that's why we began secretly sending our soldiers into. about fifty a week also when they left at night and reach rwanda while it was still dark. he said if you go. through as they grew a number the new government noticed them and the fighting intensified my keep. if you see i put it down. i. when it is whoops. see good this is. not at all sure the law shortly. we. knew some details. but. not all of it to the boss who would be deceived you probably markham even a seed. that is a big. one when you. can to use it. there were some men who wanted us to stand our ground and keep on fighting in rwanda. while others said we've already lost so many people let's go back to congo and reorganize. commander opted for the second solution. gener

now in rwanda twenty five years since the killing of eight hundred thousand people take a look at the life picture right now from the president paul kagame a had led a walk and remember and of the victims of the one nine hundred ninety four genocide of the national stadium in kigali a vigil is being held there some of the tutsis targeted in the killings ran to the stadium when they came under attack by hutu militia and during a ceremony at the genocide memorial to gum a praised for reuniting after the massacre the. story is profound hope. lol community. is beyond repair. of the people is never fully extinguished and your simmons has more from can go. paul kagame is positive turning his message to rwandans was followed up with this he said every day we learn to forgive and not forget forgiveness being a key part of these commemorations he also referred to the population in that it sixty percent of the rwanda population now was born after the genocide so there is opposed genocide generation and much effort being made to address so many of the problems in integration trying to integrate

in rwanda what's gone wrong is this paul kagame is paranoia well i think that the. ground and uganda may be suffering what you call structural stress in the sense that i get the sense of perhaps the rays of wonder instills fear in uganda you gotta be seen in the ways of rwanda is threats to our security threats to our position as a regional head to mali military headman and therefore you've got. what you or structure rather yes structural suckage competition or i feel what what's what do you make of the current situation between uganda and rwanda structural stress or structural repositioning of british society to competition according to andrew or is this because of the holes of this dispute is apparently the position of so-called dissidents could go all the dissidents and the seventy not handing them over. look this in many ways martin goes back to your very first question about some of these rwandan figure is in the diaspora and in the rest of the region who are in fact mobilizing against the kid gobby regime you mention the likes of care a day or in cairo care a

in rwanda what's gone wrong is this paul kagame is paranoia well i think that the. ground and uganda may be suffering what you call structural stress in the sense that i get the sense of perhaps the rays of wonder instills fear in uganda you gotta be seen in the ways of rwanda is threats to our security threats to our position as a regional head to mali military headman and therefore you got. what you or structure rather yes structural suckage competition all right phil what what's what do you make of the current situation between uganda and rwanda structural stress or structural repositioning of british society to competition according to andrea or is this because at the heart of this dispute is apparently the position of so-called dissidents can go all the dissidents and the seventy not handing them over. look this in many ways martin goes back to your very first question about some of these rwandan figure is in the diaspora and in the rest of the region who are in fact mobilizing against the kid gobby regime you mention the likes of care a day or in cairo care a

in today's rwanda few visible traces of the genocide remain. at least the two men are brought to a reintegration camp where former rebels are prepared for civilian life it's run by the rwandan government. was. you know no i haven't even been here for an hour but i already like it. it's a good place. some of the men already here recognize happy man and they fought together indian sea in recent years tens of thousands of former hutu rebels have voluntarily returned to rwanda. at meal times the young men are served with generous portions here they no longer need to steal them plunder to come buy food. the next day the men gather for an assembly they sing songs celebrating their country rwanda. was. it was. take led efforts to promote reconciliation and unity has been underway for some twenty years now these days hutus and tutsis once again live side by side notions of ethnicity and sectarianism have been effectively a raised. psychologist talks to the men about trauma. you need to talk about it he says but something these men have never learned to

the young man knows little about rwanda he was born in d.r. see his parents fled there after the rwandan genocide along with hundreds of thousands of hutus who feared reprisals will come. here from a long way away now i'm safe with the u.n. and i think they'll help me i have a better future now. more on another former rebel who will be taken over the border to rwanda or later today the government there has pledged to reintegrate them into society. i'm so happy that i had wings i fly up to heaven. i'm going back to my country. i'm getting out of the bush. so glad it. was having on a maurice was born in one thousand nine hundred ninety four the year of the genocide his parents fled with him to see and he grew up here. he began to bear no responsibility for the must slaughter that happened twenty five years ago the young men are simply victims of circumstance. extremists in rwanda as government were behind the murder of between eight hundred thousand and one million people most of whom belonged to the to the minority. fearing retaliation many who

invaded rwanda with takhe goal of tg power. as the fighting escalated99 between 1990 a4, the hutu- minated rwandan government called on people to attack anyone who could be a supporter of the tutsi rebels. on apr 6, 1994, unknown assailants shot down a plane carrying rwanda's hutu president. within days, extremists took control of the government, and responded with mass violence. in just three months, around 800,000 tuts were killed.te hutu the genocide ended when the rebelat r.p.f. defe the government that july. while most foreigners evacuated during the killings, carl wilkens, an american missionary and aid worker, remained. >> it's just crazy how much has changed. it's just so beautiful now. these manicured, you know, medianin the middle and palm trees. it's so bizarre. it's amazing. e reporter: wilkens is back in kigali to commemore genocide. back in his old neighborhood, he told us what he saw 25 years ago. >> i looked at this hillside and in fields and empty plots i saw what looked like garbage. and i got my binoculars an

in rwanda what's gone wrong is this paul kagame is paranoia well i think that. the wound and uganda may be suffering what you call structural stress in the sense that i get the sense of perhaps the rays of wonder instills fear in uganda you gotta be seen in the ways of rwanda is threats to our security threats to our position as a regional hegemon a military headman and therefore you've got. what you or structure rather yes structural such competition all right phil what what's what do you make of the current situation between uganda and rwanda structural stress or structural repositioning of british society to competition according to andrew or is this because at the heart of this dispute is apparently the position of so-called dissidents could go all the dissidents and the seventy not handing them over. look this in many ways martin goes back to your very first question about some of these rwandan figure is in the diaspora and in the rest of the region who are in fact mobilizing against the kid gobby regime you mention the likes of care a day or in cairo care

at that time rwanda was still governed by belgium. rwanda is one of the smallest countries in africa and is the most densely populated. it's sometimes called the land of a thousand hills. the country's main crops are t.v. and coffee. three population groups share the same land language and guards the majority hutu who are farmers the took see who raised cattle and the twelve who were hunter gatherers. belgium decided that all three were ethnic groups and through its support behind the scene but with the rise of the african independence movement in the one nine hundred fifty s. the tutsi demanded an end to belgium's rule. the belgians supported by the vatican and the white fathers group of catholic missionaries responded by. building up the political and social strength of the hutu. this was to have immediate and tragic consequences in one nine hundred fifty nine to two launched a violent wave of attacks on the tutsi minority calling it a social revolution. after rwanda gained its independence in one nine hundred sixty two greg munda a

so conflict attractive twenty five years ago is that a taboo subject now in rwanda. you know everyone we don't have any idea of with any who to all to. cards or any any document. that's a group that we have to take after the genocide or by i have to say you can in your room or wherever you can use anywhere. or whether you think you are as is a hutu and tutsi or whatever you think you are you can't use that for anything or any right or any stance we are all on the map of course people this is these are things that people have died and can fall in the generations act and many people still have wants and people said i was the only jew which is why me now there are people who have genocide ideology all who see have it hates in them. it's generate didn't see a long way to do people see which people do not know where they have to go to under a throne after being killed so that so many lose that that but collectively he has won and we have made a very big step when my mom leaves me in the in the village sometimes i go there the possibility of his next to our house is the po

it's a quarter of a century since rwanda was torn apart by a campaign of genocide that killed at least eight hundred thousand since then the country's recovery is widely seen as an example of african potential but how much freedom do people there have to of rwanda paying a price for peace this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program dennis now twenty five years ago the world watched as unimaginable atrocities were committed in the rwandan genocide at least eight hundred thousand people were slaughtered within one hundred days rwanda has since made a remarkable turnaround and is often portrayed today as a shining example of what can be achieved in africa when our president paul kagame he has started one hundred days of commemorations by lighting a flame at the genocide memorial it's believed two hundred fifty thousand victims are buried at that site alone will president kagame he says rwanda's recovery is a story of hope for the world you nineteen ninety four there was no. as good. like reveres. from the splits survivors. are there on their alarms were something left to give.

this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes rwanda remembers its deadliest one hundred days on sunday the country commemorates the twenty fifth anniversary of the genocide that killed nearly a million people will hear from survivors striving to keep the peace. and african literature in focus the second african book festival is underway here in berlin or meet one of the continent's rising star novelists. i'm christine wonderwall come to the program i'm glad you're tuned in this weekend twenty five years since the start of the rwandan genocide one of the darkest and most brutal chapters in the country's history the catalyst for the genocide was the downing of the plane carrying rwanda's then president juba now. he was a hoot he was on his way back from peace talks in tanzania with tutsi rebels the very next day the massacre began over a period of just one hundred days nearly one million people most of them tutsis were killed by hutu militias became in stopped when the tutsi rebels led by a poor guy may seize the capital kigali gandhi went on to become president in two tho

just talk to us about how rwanda has changed since the genocide in the last 25 years.he wounds healed 7 last 25 years. to what extent have the wounds healed ?|j last 25 years. to what extent have the wounds healed? i spoke to the head of the body for genocide survivors and i say more people are coming out to speak more about the genocide and according to him, the trauma statistics are going up. more people speaking about it and more people speaking about it and more people showing they still have post—traumatic stress disorder and it isa post—traumatic stress disorder and it is a big problem they are working on. the country has been largely peaceful ever since the dreadful events of 25 years ago. a more united country. the profiling of hutu and tutsi does not exist most people identify themselves as rwandans. i have spoken to people who were children when the genocide happened and i want a brighter future and to step out of the shadows of the history that has been with them for all of this time. the regime of the government of president paul kagame is controversial. to

northern rwanda july fourth two thousand and fifteen. in july nine hundred ninety four troops of the rwandan patriotic front or include tony seize the capital kigali and put an end to the mass slaughter of the tutsi population. it was the final genocide of the twentieth century. on their one patriotic front is a political and military movement founded in one nine hundred eighty seven am. told so gummy has led the r.t.f. since the early one nine hundred ninety s. it has been one just president since two thousand and three. i. have talked in our culture. did you know we make a distinction between what is good and what is evil. what you can you put on that no one needs to explain that to us i would hope we don't need anyone to show us the path to dignity we have actually. we know what to do. for that what i would people were killed for that. moment no one has the right to condemn us. over just one hundred days between april and july one thousand nine hundred ninety four one of history's most notorious killing machines tore through ronda a m

conflict attractive twenty five years ago is that a taboo subject now in rwanda. you know everyone we don't have any idea with with any who to all to. cards or any any document. that's a group step that we had to take after the genocide by i have to say you can eat your room or wherever you can use anywhere. or whether you think you are as is a hutu and tutsi or whatever you think you are you can't use that for anything and he right or anything happens we are all the land and the map of course people this is these are things that people have died and can fall in generations back and many people still have wounds and people said i was the only jew which is why now there are people who have a genocide ideology all who see have it hates in them and it's generally to didn't even long way to do people see head wounds people do not know where their loved ones were thrown after being killed so that so many lose that that but collectively has one and we have made it a big step when my mom leaves in me in me even if it sometimes i go in there the possibility of us next to

drones make life-saving medical deliveries to rural hospitalin rwanda.nd, much more. >> woodruff: during the special counsel's investigation into whether the trump campaign colluded with russia to win thel presidenlection, one of the russian names that comes up is oleg deripaska.ss he is a busin with close ties to the kremlin. newshour special corrent ryan chilcote landed a rare interview with him. nd starts with some backgr. >> reporter: he is a self-made tycoon, one of russia's wealthiest businessmen, who had alntrolled, for years, one of the world's largesinum producers, rusal, among several other companies. like other russian magnates, s. government says, oleg deripaska is a close ally of the esident, vladimir putin. and, over the last two years, deripaska's name has come up in american news reports as a figure with ties to some of the rgets of special counsel robert mueller's now-concluded russia investigation. deripaska's interactions with the eventual chairman of president trump's 2016 campaign, erul manafort, go back years. more recently, daska a

rwanda is a small country, about the ze of maryland. and it's crowded.ts youthful population is estimated at around 12 million people. it has few natural resources, no traditional industries, so it's turneto brain power for the future, trying to become the dochnology hub for the region. and being an earlyer of medical drones is a feather in its cap, says dr. jetiste mazarati, who heads the al service department of rwanda. >> when the zipline company approach the government of rwanda, it was also fitting with what i can call the governsent ambition ttechnology servicing people. >> reporter: another dividend whthat's hard to measure i drones are doing for young imaginations. >> when i grew up, before i was maybe 15 years old, i hadn't heen a plane, an actane, bu, we have kids, they take wires and start try to imitate the size of the shape of drone. >> reporter: many countries, including the u.s., with much heavier air traffic, have restricted drones to smaller- scale trials until they develop more comprehensive safety regulations. air traffic is light in r

as rwanda prepares to commemorate twenty five years since the start of its genocide the same images of horror dominate tears a low carb dissolve the sorrow and questions remain who shot down the aircraft killing rwanda's president from the hutu majority an act that started one hundred days of killing on a scale rarely seen in modern history around three quarters of the minority tutsi population were murdered. questions of why the international community didn't immediately respond still exist how many lives could have been saved or why didn't the united nations at least take early action against a highly organized campaign of hatred and incitement by the hutus. for alice. underground in one of the mass graves there's only one answer and that's to forgive despite her extraordinary loss she shows some of the seemingly endless lines of coffins containing the dried out bones of whole families in this casket are the remains of her mother father two sisters and three brothers i knew i vividly remember the death of my parents and my siblings i hear their voices in my heart i'm sad but i forgiv

it's 25 years since the rwanda genocide. we hear from a survivor who only talks about forgiveness. >>> live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. we want to welcome our viewers here and around the world. i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. "newsroom" starts right now. >>> israel's election is just two days away, and prime minister benjamin netanyahu looking for support at home and abroad, and he's getting it from president trump who could be key. the white house has already recognized jerusalem as israel's capital and israeli sovereignty over the golan heights. now mr. netanyahu's going a step more. he's pledging to annex west bank settlements if he's re-elected. >> this comes as the prime minister faces his biggest political challenge in years. polls show he's in a tight race with his former military chief of staff, benny gantz. president trump tried to paint democrats as anti-semitic. >> democrats have allowed anti-semitism to take root in their party and in their country. they have allowed that. they have allowed t

our family were here in rwanda and all of them were killed.monday to rwanda in august of 1994, there was nothing. a loss of the people who are semi like you, they came “— people who are semi like you, they came —— they were killed most brutal of weights was up and 25 years later, how are people recovering from this who are trying to normal life now? we are trying our best but it is not easy to forget what happened before. our family, it is not easy to forget what happened before. ourfamily, we lost everything. but now the most important thing is to move forward because we want what happened in the past to be the pass of this country. we wa nt past to be the pass of this country. we want to be the per wonder that we are, that we can live together, and we can... there has been a consolation process where you find that people are able to live together in the village with people who killed their loved ones, you see your killer on the daily basis, i am wondering how you do you get to that level of tolera nce wondering how you do you get to that lev

in the country's history the cat's in this for the genocide was the downing of a plane carrying rwanda's then president juvenile. he was a hutu he was on his way back from peace talks in tanzania with tutsi rebels the very next day the massacre of a period of just one hundred days nearly one million people most of them tutsis were killed by hutu militias they can install when the tutsi rebels led by paul kagame is seize the capital kigali a god they went on to become president in two thousand and remains in power to this day. ahead of the anniversary east africa correspondent a genocide survivor. well we want to give you this is where house used to be before the genocide nothing is left of it now. ben to top down after looting it and i mean gas prices. everything when he was just three months old when his parents and four siblings were killed by hutu militias he's a survivor of the one nine hundred ninety four genocide in rwanda the fastest of the twentieth century during which close to a million rundowns mostly to see well wiped out in just one hundred days. eric was too young to rememb

it was triggered by the shooting down of that croft in which the president of rwanda at that time the hutu majority the president died along with the poor and the president of the next day april the seventh the whole massacre of the whole genocide began under with so many people to reconciliation must be a massive challenge even twenty five years on what sort of progress has been made as far as reconciliation is concerned. the has been progress it has to be said how can you start to think out how you integrate you reintegrate people when so many people have been killed in the killers are living in the community now the how as a community based court system. there were a total of two million cases in all and the majority of those cases were dealt with by these community based courts the human rights watch sees some questions about it current denied that this was a fast process in gauge justice on people who engaged in the gentle genocide and there have been a reintegration after that between the perpetrators and the victims there are villages where the two bodies of this orphans two si

a quarter of a century from the day it began rwanda is remembering the more than eight hundred thousand victims of the genocide the campaign of killing mainly targeted the tutsi people most of whom were beaten or hacked with machetes. i. owe. president paul kagame he began the commemorations by lighting a flame at the genocide memorial more than two hundred fifty thousand of the victims of believed to be buried at the site let's go live now to cook ali and her simmons is that for us and what else is planned for this day of commemoration. well as you say world leaders have been at the site where two hundred fifty thousand people were buried in a mass grave and names on walls surrounding other sites and world leaders of laid wreaths and also the flame has been lit the flame of remembrance it will stay alive for the next hundred days and now at the convention center here world leaders are talking away hearing a number of words obviously the words of comfort words of of remembrance but also some particularly telling words from the prime minister of belgium a former colonial power are here i

special correspondent fred de sam lazaro reports on one o oup trying tke a dent in rwanda. it's part of fred's series "agents for change." >> reporter: it is an extraordinary reunion, held once a year in rwanda's capit. >> how are you feeling, you good? >> reporter: nearly 200 people came together. almost all of them would be dead from a serious heart condition, if it weren't for surgery they got through the prect they came to celebrate. they're all survivors of rheumatic heart disease, a condition that's caused by untreated strep throat, an infection routinely treated in developed countries with antibiotics like penicillin. >> but in places like rwanda, they don't get treated, so this eventually turns into rheumatic heart disease over time, the valves become infected, they either become narrowed so that the blood can't get through them, or they don't closely propand both of them can result in premature death if not treated. >> reporter: overwhelmingly, dr. chip bolman says that's whatpp s in a country that has only five cardiologists and no heart surgeons for a population

andrew simmons, al jazeera, rwanda.inted a panel of experts to investigate france's actions during the rwandan genocide. france and rwanda have had a strained relationship since the killings in 1994. here is more from paris. correspondent: the french president met with survivors of the 1990 four genocide. france's relationship with rwanda has been strained for 25 years, over allegations france was complicit. emmanuel macron says there is time for truth. he has appointed a mission to investigate the french role at the time and announced more resources to track down genocide suspect who fled to france. theel lost family in genocide and welcomes the initiatives. >> it is important for people in france, rwanda, survivors and humanity to know what happened. it is a step in the right direction because the narrative is no longer that there is nothing to say, but that there franceis something to say. correspondent: the killings were on a monstrous scale militias armed by the hutu majority killed 800,000 people, mainly from the

commemorations take place in rwanda to mark 25 years since the genocide in which about a tenth of theopulation was killed. kensington palace reveals that prince william has just finished a three—week stint secretly working with the uk's intelligence agencies. a new boat race record — olympic champion james cracknell will become the oldest person ever to row in the annual oxford—cambridge clash this afternoon. and coming up in half an hour, the travel show is in tokyo as the city counts down to hosting the 2020 paralympics. good afternoon. theresa may says there's a risk brexit won't happen unless a deal can be agreed with labour. cross—party talks have been taking place to break the stalement on getting an agreement through parliament. —— the stalemate. labour says further talks are planned, but said it was disappointing that there had not been any movement on the government's so—called "red lines". here's our political correspondent nick eardley. what does theresa may do in the coming days? another brexit deadline approaching, still no breakthrough in talks with labour. the prime min

i this is just rwanda, all of sub-saharan afrisuffering from the same thing. >> reporter: rwanda's healther miniiane gashumba says for years the government's priority has been to deal with infectious diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and h.i.v., what she calls "the first killers." tackling non-communicable diseases like diabetes and heart disease are only now getting some of the attention they need. >> reporter: dr. maurice musoni has been mentored for years by team heart. he will complete his traing in south africa and return this spring as rwanda's firstrd thoracic surgeon. >> it places a big responsibility on your shoulders my biggest worry and challengens will be to tion from a situation that is well equipped do with what little you have.o >> reporter: and dr. musoni will soon have an unlikely ally. erneste simpunga's is the kind of happily-ever-after story the bolmans wish they could tell about young wiiam. >> he was really qui sick, very small, 17, he weighed 72 pounds. >> reporter: but he pursued her with irrepressible curiosity. >> he would ask me, "but if your husband could do my

the democratic forces for the liberation of rwanda they're considered the perpetrators of the genocide. and then there are the regional my my militia groups north of here they are the main course behind illegal fishing they make a fortune with it. there is also the a.t.f. nod to the ugandan repr group that has murdered over one thousand civilians in the last year and a half hours. from here in the middle of the danger zone so to speak in the last year they have been countless attacks we've lost five rangers here. who is home to the headquarters of the punk southern sector which is where the guerrillas live. every time the rangers go on some patrol they risk confrontations with militias the six hundred ranges defend eight thousand square kilometers of forest three hundred kilometers from north to south an area about the size of the. fighting on two fronts not only do they have to drive the troops out of the park they also have to keep the local population out. our mission is to protect the system. we have chosen this work and we're ready to give our lives to save the mountain gorillas f

but france and rwanda have been trying to repair four years.nocide. some genocide suspects remain at large in exile and the president says the international community must do more to prove it has learned its lessons to prevent a similar incident in the future. for many years the bbc‘s top of the pops was compulsory viewing for millions of young people, and a guaranteed wind—up for parents. it featured all the top stars of the day, miming with more or less conviction, depending how cool they were. the beatles only actually appeared live on the show once, in 1966, and the recording of that show was lost. now, more than half a century later, a short clip has been found. our entertainment correspondent colin paterson has the story. the beatles rehearsing for their only ever live top of the pops appearance. back in 1966, bbc shows were recorded on video tape — very expensive at the time, so wiped after a couple of weeks. thought lost forever, until now. the fab four, a fab find — 11 seconds of paperback writer unearthed in mexico. one inch, rank‘s i

a quarter century on from the day it began rwanda is remembering the more than eight hundred thousand victims of the genocide the campaign of killing targeted the tutsi people most were beaten or hacked with. i. oh. president began the commemorations by lighting a flame at the could galley genocide memorial war than two hundred fifty thousand of the victims are believed to be burry the at the site it's the only a conclusion. for all but one does a story is profound hope. no community. is beyond repair and the dignity of the people is never fully extinguished and the prime minister of belgium rwanda's former colonial rulers said his country is willing to confront the past so as you see. this genocide represents the failure of the international community which couldn't war which couldn't prevent which couldn't stop this crime against humanity i stand before you in the name of a country that also wants to take responsibility for its part in history anderson means joining us from golly to talk us through the coming my race and andrew and how the day has panned out. well but the tone set b

sunday marks twenty five years since the rwanda genocide when at least eight hundred thousand people were killed in one hundred days the french president appointed a panel of experts to investigate his country's actions at the time and also met a survivors' group in powers relations between france and rwanda have been strained since the one thousand nine hundred four killings the reports from paris. at the lease a palace the french president met today the survivors of the nine hundred ninety four rwandan genocide france's relationship with rwanda has been strained for twenty five years of regulations by kigali that france was complicit in the massacre now emanuel markhor says it's time for the truth he's appointed a commission to investigate france's role at the time and announced more resources to track down genocide suspects who fled to france marcel could banda who lost family in the genocide welcomes michael's initiative at present but. it's important for people in france rwanda for survivors and humanity to know what happened it's a step in the right direction because the narrat

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but the scars remain and the healing goes on this weekend rwanda will pause to commemorate the most violent period in its history sunday marks the day when hutu militia began an ethnic genocide against the minority andrew symonds visits the area of your martyr where some of the worst atrocities took place a warning some of the images in his report could be disturbing as prepares to commemorate twenty five years since the start of his genocide the same images of horror dominate tears a low carb dissolve. and questions remain who shot down the aircraft killing rwanda's president from the hutu majority an act that started one hundred days of killing on a scale rarely seen in modern history around three quarters of the minority tutsi population were murdered. questions of why the international community didn't immediately respond still exist how many lives could have been saved or why didn't the united nations at least take early action against a highly organized campaign of hatred and incitement by the hutus. underground in one of the mass graves there is only one answer and that's to