‘The Rwandan town of Nyamata is thirty kilometres south of Kigali, the capital'.
The Rwandan town of Nyamata is thirty kilometres south of Kigali, the capital. When I went there, the church was still filled with hundreds of bodies. Dogs had torn apart some of the remains, and I had to tread carefully for fear of stepping on a skull or a femur. Journalists had written of vomiting…
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