Monday, August 31, 2009

The man who ordered a church to be bulldozed, with 2000 Rwandans inside...

 Fifteen years after Rwanda's genocide, a businessman went on trial Monday for allegedly ordering bulldozers to demolish a church where 2,000 Tutsis had sought shelter and watching as they were crushed by the collapsing structure or hunted down by armed gangs.

More than half a million members of the Tutsi ethnic minority and moderates from the Hutu majority were slaughtered during the 100-day Rwandan genocide in 1994, and justice is still being meted out. More...

Don't miss:

  1. Emma Thompson and her Rwandan child-soldier son. Wow!
  2. Another Catholic priest accused of participating in Rwanda's genocide...
  3. The Rwandan genocide and the Catholic Church that looked the other way...
  4. Rwanda: did France play an active role in the genocide?

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