BUT. The Rwandan genocide was early 1994. It was horrific, and the killing lasted about 100 days. You can write a lot about it, but for anyone who wasn’t born then, a quick recap
- two main tribes, Hutu and tutsi
-a few months of manoeuvring by Hutu to put sympathetic people in power positions
-leaders of Rwanda and (Burundi?) killed in v sus air crash
-(possible CIA involvement )
-orgy of killing of tutsi, worst kind of stuff imaginable.
-international community wring hands and do fuck all
-100 or so days later everyone suddenly decides it needs to stop and it stops. Order is restored. Country becomes fairly safe.
-1996, genocide courts start to process cases
The family came here in 1996. Way after the country was safe but at the point the guilty were being judged. Almost all Hutu participated in the genocide. multiple men who are known to have participated were never brought to justice and were given asylum here.