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Article: Heart of Darkness That Was Rwanda; A Decade After the Massacre, New Films Revisit the Horror
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- The Washington Post
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- March 27, 2004
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You can see the shock and humiliation on his face, even now, 10
years later. In the new "Frontline" documentary, "Ghosts of Rwanda,"
Bonaventure Niyibizi speaks of that moment when he believed he would
die.
Genocide had gripped his homeland. Thousands of his countrymen
were slaughtering men, women and children. A United Nations
peacekeeping force could not help; it was hamstrung by orders from
New York to stand down. The United States evacuated all of its
personnel but not its local employees, including Niyibizi, who had
worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development for 10
years. He was Rwandan. He was African. He would not be saved, at
least not by the Americans.
"I saw them ...