For those of you who are a little confused by all my talk of Rwanda, I would like to present a little
background information. I think it is important that people are aware of what went on. On the
evening of April 6, 1994 an airplane carrying Rwanda's president, Juvenal Habyarimina was gunned
down by rebels. For exactly 100 days to follow, a mass genocide broke out. Between 800,000 and
one million men, women, and children were brutally massacred by Hutu extremists. This rate of
killing was four times greater than the peak of the Nazi Holocaust. The United Nations International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda tried the men responsible and my work in Africa
during and after graduate school provided evidence to convict them.
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