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Photo Gallery Looking Back at the Horror

Two decades ago on April 6, the Rwandan genocide began, an orgy of violence that ended with the deaths of 800,000 people. Looking back is painful for those who survived.
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Rwanda today is dotted with memorials at sites of the worst massacres. This one is located inside the church at Ntarama, just outside the capital Kigali, where Dancille Nyirabazungu lost many of her family members.

Foto: FINBARR O'REILLY/ REUTERS
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Paul Kagame, the Tutsi general whose rebel army took over the country in 1994 and ended the genocide, remains in power today.

Foto: ALEXANDER JOE/ AFP
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The entire world is looking back on the Rwanda genocide this week. The international community failed to get involved until it was much too late, with the UN refusing to send more peacekeeping troops despite urgent requests to do so from its commander in the country. This memorial is at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva and shows pictures of children who became separated from their families in the violence.

Foto: FABRICE COFFRINI/ AFP
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This church in the village of Nyarubuye, in eastern Rwanda, was the scene of a massacre in 1994 and is now a genocide memorial.

Foto: AP/dpa
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