Updated: August 05, 2008
Twelve years ago, one of the world's worst mass killings took place in the tiny African nation of Rwanda. Over a period of 100 days, 10 percent of the country's population was killed at a rate of about 8,000 people a day, leaving more than 937,000 people dead.
Since the atrocities, Rwandans have faced the long, hard task of rebuilding their country and their lives. Most of the victims were of the ethnic minority group known as Tutsis, who once ruled over the Hutus, the ethnic group making up the majority in Rwanda. Hutus were implicated in most of the genocide killings, and thousands of people are now in prison awaiting trial for their crimes.
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