Ghana: Rwanda, 10 Years Later Could It Happen in Ghana?

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"Nothing I've read to date has helped me understand how it was possible for people who had lived with each other, who were neighbors, who had intermarried, to systematically go about the destruction of an entire ethnic group." (George Moose, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa)

Ten years ago, the world stood by and watched in horror as images and stories from the Rwandan Genocide rolled into their homes. In a period of under four months, 800,000 people were systematically murdered, victims of the worst genocide since the Holocaust. While the genocide was one of ethnic divides, it was more complex than this simple explanation.

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