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This week, Rwanda marks the 22nd Liberation Daysince President Paul Kagame’s Rwanda Patriotic Front swept into Kigali and ended 100 days of untold massacre of citizens.
On April 6, 1994, then President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed when his plane was shot down over Rwandan airspace sparking off atrocities that, in 100 days, claimed the lives of at least one million people, particularly from the Tutsi community. Rwanda’s two dominant communities, the Tutsi and the Hutu had for long, treated each other with suspicion. The plane crash lit the match that nearly decimated Rwanda.
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