Kigali’s centre for undesirables: HRW gets it wrong once again

There was a time when Rwanda was famous for the wrong reasons.

Tucked away deep in the Great Lakes region of East and Central Africa, surrounded by far larger neighbours and once led by remarkably insular governments, few in the wider world had heard of it until the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi exploded onto their television screens and became the staple of news headlines in print and electronic media. It then became the country where “ancient ethnic hatreds” had led to the killing of a million or so of its citizens.