The Rwandan Genocide | 57
History of the 90s
Kathy Kenzora
4.7 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
For 100 days in 1994 evil descended upon the small country of Rwanda. A long simmering conflict between Hutus and Tutsis boiled over after the country’s president died when his plane was shot down by a missile.
Police stood by as approximately 800,000 people, mainly Tutsis were killed by violent mobs armed with clubs, sticks and machete’s. From the capital city of Kigali to small rural villages, unspeakable crimes were committed by militia groups, soldiers and neighbors against neighbors. During that time the international community largely remained on the sidelines.
On this episode of History of the 90s, host Kathy Kenzora looks back at the Rwanda Genocide.
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Guest:
Allan Thompson, former Toronto Star Reporter and now the Journalism program head at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Twitter: @Profallan
Resources about Rwanda:
Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwandan Genocide and Beyond, Edited by Allan Thompson
Rwanda Chronology | FRONTLINE | PBS
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity, By Romeo Dallaire
Hotel Rwanda
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Kathy. I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to History of the 90s |
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| 0:09.7 | A listener's note. The following episode contains coarse language, adult themes, and content |
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| 0:20.6 | advised. |
| 0:23.1 | A 29-year-old mother of three huddled inside her home in a small rural village, unsure what to do. |
| 0:31.2 | Her country's president had been killed six days earlier when his plane was shot down, and |
| 0:36.8 | violent chaos had broken out first in the |
| 0:39.3 | capital city, and then it spread to the countryside. As houses burned around her, she took her |
| 0:45.9 | children and fled with many of her neighbors to a school on a nearby hilltop, hoping they would |
| 0:51.7 | be safe there. But evil was headed their way. Soon the school was |
| 0:57.2 | surrounded by mobs of people, armed with clubs, sticks, and machetes. Police stood by and watched |
| 1:03.7 | as the killings began. Similar scenes played out around the country for nearly three months. Unspeakable crimes committed by militia |
| 1:13.1 | groups, soldiers, and neighbors against neighbors. And during that time, the international community |
| 1:19.9 | largely remained on the sidelines. I'm Kathy Kinsora, and this is History of the 90s, a podcast about a decade that changed the world. |
| 1:30.7 | On this episode, the Rwandan Genocide. |
| 1:39.6 | Like most conflicts, the Rwandan genocide did not happen in a vacuum. |
| 1:45.5 | The underlying issues that preceded the 100-day massacre existed for many years. |
| 1:51.5 | They were complicated and involved various actors with competing interests. |
| 1:56.8 | And like most conflicts, in the end, it was the country's innocent citizens who were caught in the middle of what became a violent, unspeakable atrocity. |
| 2:07.4 | Rwanda is a small country in Central Africa, known as the land of a thousand hills, because of its beautiful green rolling landscape. |
| 2:16.6 | For centuries, the people of Rwanda lived in peace, |
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