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Article: Why is Rwanda killing itself? The slaughter has unleashed a tide of refugees and raised fears that the fighting will spread.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 23, 1994
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"Is anyone here still alive?" the young men shouted as they entered the Ecole Officielle Technique in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Like many survivors of the grenade and machine-gun attack on the school where some 3,000 people had sought refuge, Simon-Pierre Hitiyise raised his hand. "We've come to help you," said the men, dressed in long, blood-spattered coats and wearing bandannas that covered their faces. Hitiyise and the other male survivors were then separated from the women and told to lie face down on the ground. In the moment before the 23-year-old mechanic's skull was hacked open, his back and hands slashed and his right ear cut off, one of the attackers told ...