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Article: Former relief director addresses Rwandan genocide at UCLA
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- January 26, 2005
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Zahra Bazmjow
University Wire
01-26-2005
(Daily Bruin) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- Within 100 days of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, over 800,000 people, systematically slaughtered by people armed with machetes, lay dead while the international community stood by and did not intervene. The killing added up to an average of 333 murders every hour, five and a half lives every minute.
On Tuesday, Carl Wilkins, the former director of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency in Rwanda, shared his experience with UCLA students during a discussion held at the School of Law about living through the Rwandan genocide.
Wilkins refused to leave Rwanda when other foreigners were ...