A 28-year-old Australian whose assault rifles bore anti-Muslim and White-supremacist slogans killed 50 Muslim worshippers last month at two mosques in New Zealand where they had gathered for Friday prayers. What made this atrocity more devastating was the fact that the shooter filmed the attack using a head-mounted camera, live streaming the assault to Facebook. […]
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Rwanda remembers the 800,000 killed on 25th anniversary of genocide
Rwanda embarks on a week of commemoration activities and 100 days of national mourning on Sunday to mark the 25th anniversary of the genocide in which 800,000 people – one tenth of its population – were killed in 100 days of slaughter. Here are some facts about one of the darkest chapters in human history: […]
Rwanda remembers; 25th anniversary of genocide
Rwanda on Sunday commemorates the 25th anniversary of the genocide in which at least 800,000 mainly Tutsi people were beaten, hacked and shot to death in a hundred days of slaughter. A quarter of a century on, the east African nation has recovered economically but the trauma casts a long and dark shadow over the […]