Building a brighter future: 20 years after the Rwanda genocide

Twenty years after the Rwanda Genocide, despite all odds the country is on track to becoming one of Africa’s most developed nations. 

In around 100 days from April 7, 1994, at least 800,000 – and as many as one million – Rwandans were brutally and systematically murdered. Most of those killed were ethnic Tutsis. Plan Australia CEO Ian Wishart was there immediately after the slaughter finished. “What I remember most is the silence – the deathly silence. You’d move through village after village and you wouldn’t see a soul,” he commented during an interview with ABC News. “And that was because they’d either been killed, or they’d fled.”
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