KIGALI, RWANDA
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A mourner attends a night vigil and prayer on April 7 as Rwanda began its 100-day commemoration of the 1994 genocide. Twenty-five years ago, 800,000 people were killed in about three months when Hutu extremists systematically attacked their neighbors in the Tutsi minority. An estimated 250,000 women were raped and the nation traumatized. Former President Bill Clinton has called not intervening one of his main foreign policy failings, and France recently ordered a two-year government study into its alleged role in the massacre. “In 1994, there was no hope, only darkness,” Rwandan President Paul Kagame said at a commemoration event. “Today, light radiates from this place. How did it happen? Rwanda became a family again.”