Last week, Rwanda celebrated its 22nd Liberation Day. For Rwandans, liberation means moving from darkness to light, divisive politics to unity, hatred to love, discord to union but most importantly, from hopelessness to a life full of belief and promise.
July 8, 1994 marked the final overthrow of one of the world’s most brutal governments whose army and allied militias killed at least 10,000 people every day, at the end of which over a million Tutsi had been massacred in just 90 days.