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Politics | History | Citizenship

What was the Rwandan genocide?

Just under 30 years ago, 100 days changed the course of Rwandan history. A campaign of mass murder killed more than one tenth of the country's population. How did this happen? What caused it? And what has happened since? This video from TED-Ed explains.

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