RWANDAN GENOCIDE

May 30, 2021

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday asked for forgiveness for his country’s role in the 1994 Rwandan massacre in which about 8,00,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis, were killed.

About:

Rwanda is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley, where the African Great Lakes region and East Africa converge.
Its capital city is Kigali.
Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It is highly elevated, giving it the soubriquet "land of thousand hills".

Source : The Hindu

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