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Rwanda is a small, densely populated country known as the "Land of a Thousand Hills". During colonial rule, the Belgians constructed separate racial identities for the Hutu and Tutsi groups, privileging Tutsis and exacerbating economic differences. After independence, extremist Hutu took power and stoked ethnic tensions. This culminated in the 1994 genocide that took the lives of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu over 100 days. The Rwandan Patriotic Front ended the killing and established a new Tutsi-led gove

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Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols

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