Rwanda's miraculous rebirth exposed as a mirage, shro...
On 6 April 1994, exactly 27 years ago, a Falcon jet carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and his Burundian counterpart, Cyprien Ntaryamira, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile as it was landing at Kigali International Airport. This was the trigger for one of the most violent and brutal episodes in African history, the Rwandan genocide, in which up to a million people — the overwhelming majority of them Tutsis — were slaughtered in just three months. This story has been told in news reports (after the international press was initially caught flat-footed); in the accounts of...
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