November 23, 2007
Rwanda is “the land of a thousand hills,” a tiny, vividly beautiful country in central Africa, home to some of the world’s last remaining Mountain Gorillas. But it also will be forever known as the place where, in 1994, genocide consumed every hill and corner, bodies clogged the rivers, and the “international community” turned away.
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World is Witness, a project of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, bears witness to genocide and related crimes against humanity around the world. Our staff and guest contributors bring you updates from the field, eyewitness testimony, photographs, interactive maps and more. Witness for yourself here on our website and inside Google Earth.
Learn more about the Genocide Prevention Task Force and its blueprint to prevent genocide and mass atrocities.
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Witness the destruction in Darfur, Sudan through photographs, articles and testimonies via Google Earth.
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