The genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed started after the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana - an ethnic Hutu, an act blamed on the then Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) rebels commanded by Paul Kagame but which they deny
Some fete President Kagame like a rock star for pulling Rwanda back from the edge, but several also think Kigali is some kind of little evil empire ruled by an iron-fisted former guerrilla leader.
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Human Rights Watch announced today that it is releasing a series of archives highlighting the extraordinary efforts of human rights defenders in Rwanda and abroad, to warn about the planned 1994 genocide and attempt to stop the killings. The documents painfully illustrate leading international actors’ refusal to acknowledge the slaughter of more than half a million people and act to end it.