Eight hundred thousand

THIS YEAR, THE UNITED NATIONS proclaimed April 7 an International Day of Remembrance. For in the 100 days beginning on the eve of that date 10 years ago, 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda.

The divisions between the Tutsi and Hutu peoples in Rwanda were not always as deep as those that separated them in 1994. Over the centuries, the two groups were able to live with each other in relative harmony. The advent of Belgian colonialism in the 19th century, however, exacerbated what divisions existed, as the country's overlords favored the leading Tutsi as the new elite, mainly ...