This is on the front page of yahoo news right now.
http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs1180The school was a trap. When it was finally sprung, 50,000 people were murdered in one day. Killing like that is not out of anger or passion -- it's efficient, systematic. It is killing on a scale of 2,000 people every hour.
(Note: This dispatch contains graphic video and photographs that some readers may find disturbing.)
This is how it happened: On April 6, 1994, Rwandan President Juvnal Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu, dies in a plane crash. The death of Habyarimana unleashes a killing spree that is as calculated as it is savage.
Hatred between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis in Rwanda has existed for generations. The killings are an attempt by Hutus to end their rivalry with the Tutsis once and for all. When it is over, more than 800,000 Tutsis and their sympathizers are dead.
Hutu Interahamwe militias begin their rampage within days of the plane crash. The Tutsi population is panicked. In Gikongoro Province, Hutu officials use bullhorns to encourage the Tutsis to gather at the Murambi School -- still under contruction -- telling them they will be protected there. They pack every building and the surrounding grounds.
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