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Rwanda: African genocide
Rwandan Hutu militia soldiers who participate in the program of demobilization and repatriation of profit from the Congo to the camp in the Rwandan town of Mutobo, which will help them return to normal civilian life. Trying to weaken the insurgency terrorizing eastern Congo for 15 years, UN peacekeepers carried out a campaign whose aim is to persuade as many combatants lay down their arms and go home. The conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu in the early nineties led to one of the biggest genocides in human history. The number killed in 100 days in 1994 was probably about 800,000 people, of whom about 10% were Hutus. Speed kills greater than five times the rate of murders in the German concentration camps during the Second World War. Because of the conflict between Hutus and Tutsis situation in the Great Lakes region remains tense.
10 photos via bigpicture
1. The Rwandan Hutu rebels with arms held by UN peacekeepers in the village of Kim in eastern Congo. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell, File)
2. In this photo, a man greets his former comrade-in-arms, who had arrived from the Congo to the camp for re-education. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
3. Hutu rebels, including Elias Sanvura (right), take refuge in tents in the camp. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
4. Former militia who participated in the multi-year armed conflict in the Congo, lined up, arriving to retrain in a camp which is located in the village of Mutobo in Rwanda. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
5. Uruguayan peacekeepers escorted Rwandan rebel Elias Sanvura (center) Kim. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
6. Alexis Nahobari a lesson in accounting in the classroom for the former combatants in the camp, where former rebels retrained for a "normal" life in Mutobo. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
7. The former militia soldiers in class accounting for future small entrepreneurs. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
8. Dafroza Niyranzigie prays waiting for the arrival of his son, who was not at home for almost 15 years. All these years he spent participating in a military conflict in the Congo. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
9. Dafroza Niyranzigie hugs his son - Elias Sanvura, who finally returned home, after spending almost 15 years in the Congo. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell
10. Elias Sanvura sits in the living room in the home, reunited with family after 15 years of absence.
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10 photos via bigpicture
1. The Rwandan Hutu rebels with arms held by UN peacekeepers in the village of Kim in eastern Congo. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell, File)
2. In this photo, a man greets his former comrade-in-arms, who had arrived from the Congo to the camp for re-education. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
3. Hutu rebels, including Elias Sanvura (right), take refuge in tents in the camp. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
4. Former militia who participated in the multi-year armed conflict in the Congo, lined up, arriving to retrain in a camp which is located in the village of Mutobo in Rwanda. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
5. Uruguayan peacekeepers escorted Rwandan rebel Elias Sanvura (center) Kim. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
6. Alexis Nahobari a lesson in accounting in the classroom for the former combatants in the camp, where former rebels retrained for a "normal" life in Mutobo. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
7. The former militia soldiers in class accounting for future small entrepreneurs. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
8. Dafroza Niyranzigie prays waiting for the arrival of his son, who was not at home for almost 15 years. All these years he spent participating in a military conflict in the Congo. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)
9. Dafroza Niyranzigie hugs his son - Elias Sanvura, who finally returned home, after spending almost 15 years in the Congo. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell
10. Elias Sanvura sits in the living room in the home, reunited with family after 15 years of absence.
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