Day: April 7, 2024
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White House. Statement from President Joe Biden on the 30th Commemoration of the Genocide in Rwanda
On this day 30 years ago, a brutal and systematic campaign of slaughter began in Rwanda. In the 100 days that followed, more than 800,000 women, men, and children were murdered. Most were ethnic Tutsis; some were Hutus and Twa people. It was a methodical mass extermination, turning neighbor against neighbor, and decades later, its…