On this date in 1994, Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana 's aircraft was shot down over Kigali, Rwanda, and within hours of that assassination, machete-wielding Hutus took to the streets of Rwanda and began slaughtering their Tutsi neighbors and moderate Hutus who protested the killings. The Rwandan military joined in
Close to a million people lost their lives over the following one hundred days.
Eleven years later, 760,000 people are accused of participating in the slaughter. That's 10% of Rwanda's remaining population.
Here's the story.
How can the U.N. NOT change the way it confronts genocide in the face of such a colossal failure?
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