The Rwandan Genocide (Bearing Witness: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Modern World)

In Rwanda, a small but populous country in Africa, a ghastly genocide started on April 6, 1994. Although it lasted only one hundred days, almost a million people were slaughtered by its end. This illuminating resource reviews one of the most horrible genocides in history, explaining the definition of genocide itself. Readers will learn about Rwanda's history, with a focus on the events that led to those terrible days. The book is rounded out with a brief look at post-genocide Rwanda, as the country copes and the people take back their lives after such a terrible tragedy. Examines the Rwandan genocide, discussing how a brutal, three-month campaign of ethnic cleansing, targeting the Tutsi population, left between eight hundred thousand and one million people dead