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ID157416
Title ProperRwanda’s recovery
Other Title Informationwhen remembrance is official policy
LanguageENG
AuthorClark, Phil
Summary / Abstract (Note)When the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the rebel movement led by Paul Kagame, captured control of Rwanda and halted the genocide in July 1994, it inherited not so much a state as a cemetery. In the preceding 100 days, 800,000 people out of a national population of seven million had been murdered, the majority by their neighbors and other civilians. Seventy percent of all Tutsis, the ethnic minority that had been the target of the Hutu génocidaires, were dead, along with 30 percent of all Twas, the smallest of Rwanda’s ethnic groups. Throughout Rwanda, roads, rivers, and pit latrines were clogged with rotting corpses. The infrastructure of the country—houses, roads, hospitals, offices, schools, power stations, and reservoirs—lay in ruins. Nearly all government workers—politicians, judges, civil servants, doctors, nurses, and teachers—had died or fled. Looters had emptied the banks, leaving the national treasury without a single Rwandan franc.
`In' analytical NoteForeign Affairs Vol. 97, No.1; Jan-Feb 2018: p.35-41
Journal SourceForeign Affairs Vol: 97 No 1
Key WordsRwanda ;  Ethnic Minority ;  Humanitarian Crisis ;  Genocide - 1994 ;  Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)


 
 
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