The Rwandan genocide

Witness History: Archive 2011 - A podcast by BBC World Service

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A plane crash on 6 April 1994, set off a wave of killing in Rwanda which lasted 100 days.Almost a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus lost their lives.Jean-Francois Gisimba survived that time and helped hundreds of others who had taken refuge in the family-run orphanage to stay alive as well.Photo: Gisimba Orphanage in Kigali - as it is today.