Why Rwanda needs to build relations beyond its borders
A picture taken 03 December 2003 shows a witness facing the president (with umbrella) of a Gacaca court session in Rukira, during a hearing in relation with the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. PHOTO | DDP | THOMAS LOHNES
Understanding where Rwanda finds itself 25 years after the Genocide against the Tutsi should begin with one key fact: A country in which over a million people out of a national population of seven million were murdered in 100 days, most of them by their neighbours and other civilians, has since experienced no major violence.
Instead, the vast majority of genocide perpetrators today live peacefully alongside their victims’ families on densely populated hills.
