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Rwanda's comeback.(OPINION)(Rwandan genocide)
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The Christian Science Monitor
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April 28, 2008
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Byline: Gerard DeGroot
St. Andrews, Scotland -- Francine Murengezi Ingabire, a happy 12-year-old, was hacked to pieces with a machete in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.
Her story is told at the genocide memorial in Kigali. The building is a carefully constructed contradiction. Its subject is tragedy, yet its design - sharp lines, stalwart gables - suggests hope. That contradiction is, it seems, intentional and perfectly encapsulates today's Rwanda, perhaps the most successful and optimistic nation in Africa.
The statistics of the genocide are devastating: About 83 percent of the Tutsi population was murdered in a Hutu version of the Final Solution.
The ...