- Rwanda Since the 1994 Genocide
Rwanda Since the 1994 Genocide

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What I Know About Rwanda

By stephanie on January 22, 2013

Ethnicity and ethnic division was used by political elites to advance their agendas in the genocide. People killed in opportunistic ways and killed others for fear of being reported by their neighbors for not participating in the killings.
-PCON 218

The international community did very little to stop the genocide or to even acknowledge its existence as it was occurring.
-PCON 218

Groups were given alcohol and drugs in order to prepare them to go on killing sprees and killing by machete was one of the most common ways that victims were massacred.

-PCON 218 reading


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