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. >> the rwandan genocide began twenty years ago. in 100 days, almost one million people were killed. today, rwanda is thriving. as the president credited with stoping the slaughter and putting the country back together, paul kagame is also accused of brutally suppressing dissent. so is kagame a savior or a dictator? we sent journalist sorious samura to find out. >> for centuries the tribes of this country lived together without tribal atrocities, and

the rwandan and tanzania border, not just refugees but members of the opposition who say they have hadats. very worried and saying it's not just a matter of ethnicity. it's also politics and is he worried, asking the international community to monitor the situation closely. >> robin, can you give us a backgrounder on this? burundi is really a very fragile country. it's just emerged from 12 years of civil war, and the current president was really the first one that was transitioning to democracy. so what are the hopes then that we will actually have those elections, given the history that's already happened there? >> well that's part of the problem really is this history and this accord which was signed, which made a pathway to the constitution which only allowed a president two terms in office. the big controversy comes in that, in 2005 when the current president was voted into power he was voted into power by the parliament and not by the general population and that's the excuse he's using to be able to seek a third term in office because he says he was only voted in by the general po

in less than eight weeks 800,000 rwandans were massacred. today, president william clinton acknowledges he should have done more. we should have done more. what happened in rwanda was a classic genocide. mr. president, today what's happening in syria may not meet the classic definition of a genocide but it certainly meets every standard and every division as the looming hugh -- definition of the looming humanitarian crisis of our time. and the question before before us in the united states is: what will we do? i think it has reached the point where we must act. and that's why i've joined with three of my colleagues fellow democrat tim kaine of virginia, republicans lindsey graham of south carolina and john mccain of arizona. we've written to president obama urging him to call together world leaders and to establish a humanitarian zone, a safe zone, a no-fly zone in syria where modern medical treatment can be provided and displaced persons can escape. we think it should be done under the auspices, i do, of the united nations and that the unit