Rwandan government to build nearly 300 homes for genocide survivors

The Rwandan government said on Tuesday that it plans to build 296 new homes to house vulnerable survivors of the 1994 genocide.

Over the course of 100 days in that year, extremist Hutus murdered an estimated 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Thousands of survivors still live in torment, haunted by memories of that period during which as many as 10,000 people were killed daily and sexual violence was used as a weapon of war.

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