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	Genocide Rwanda - Church

By Squinchez

on September 6, 2007

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Beginning on April 6, 1994, and for the next hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia using clubs and machetes, with as many as 10,000 killed each day.
The killings only ended after armed Tutsi rebels, invading from neighboring countries, managed to defeat the Hutus and halt the genocide in July 1994. By then, over one-tenth of the population, an estimated 800,000 persons, had been killed.

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	Visiting the mountain gorillas

Updated By K1W1

on January 14, 2003

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Wha chu lookin at ?

From the tourist office in Kigali, it is possible to organise a guided trip to see the gorillas in their natural habitat. The trip takes about 2 to 3 hours or more, depending on how long it takes to find the gorillas. My group found them in just 45 mins from leaving the truck. The rangers know approximately where they are, but as they move about and can move deeper into the jungle, it can take a couple of hours tracking them through the bamboo jungle. Once you come across them , the guide will give you an hour only and then it's time to return to the truck. This limits the human contact as the guides do not want the gorillas to become too used to humans due to helping them maintain their natural state.

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	Genocide sites

By anton64

on April 23, 2008

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I visited rwanda about 8 years after the 1994 genocide during which close to a million people were butchered over a three month period. The movie 'Shooting Dogs' captures that time 100% without any exageration. There are numerous sites dedicated to remembering that awfull time. I visited two sites, a church where the photo was taken and a school where I was so upset I could not take any photos. It might seem a little bizare to recomend this but it makes you questions mans inhumanity yet again.

Address: All over Rwanda

Directions: This site was a church, forget the place but about an hour from Kigali, just ask as everyone knows where these sites are.

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	See the Mountain Gorillas

on December 27, 2004

Young gorilla and tourists

If you are lucky, you will get very close to the gorillas.

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	Swim in Lake Kivu

on December 27, 2004

Swimming in Lake Kivu

Lake Kivu is safe for swimming. It was too chilly to stay in long on Christmas day, 2001.

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	Watch foreigners swim in Lake Kivu

on December 27, 2004

Most of the Rwandan people do not swim. My swim was very interesting to these boaters. They circled the area several times while we were swimming.

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	See the Mountain Gorillas

on December 28, 2004

The highlight of our trip to Rwanda.

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	Visiting the mountain gorillas (cont)

Updated By K1W1

on January 14, 2003

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The tours are run very conscienciously and the welfare of the gorillas is paramount. For the independent travellers who, like myself, try to avoid tours, this is not an option here. On our way to see the gorillas we stopped to pick up a couple of passengers, Rwandan soldiers, who accompanied us for the tour. They were under orders to shoot anyone found in the jungle without a guide, and then ask the questions! Anyone in the vacinity of the gorillas without official authorisation is considered a poacher.