Rwanda genocide remembered 10 years on

Ten years ago, Verena Mukarugambwa was running for her life as Hutu extremists unleashed a 100-day killing spree that tore apart the small central African nation of Rwanda.

Rwanda genocide remembered 10 years on

Ten years ago, Verena Mukarugambwa was running for her life as Hutu extremists unleashed a 100-day killing spree that tore apart the small central African nation of Rwanda.

As the housewife fled Kigali and ran from hill to hill through Rwanda’s countryside, her husband and two younger sisters were among more than 500,000 people, hacked, shot and clubbed to death during the genocide.

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