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Victoria Van Pelt. ~Unknown Author What Happened In Rwanda?

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1 Victoria Van Pelt

2 ~Unknown Author

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4 What Happened In Rwanda?

5 Genocide of an estimated 800,000 people in the East African state of Rwanda. Most of them were Tutsi. 20% of the countries population was massacred. The Hutu Rebels were against the Tutsis, They referred to them as cockroaches. Specific Timeline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/s hows/evil/etc/slaughter.html

6 Paul Rusesabagina and Don Cheadle talk behind the scenes of the film Hotel Rwanda. Paul and Tatiana at the premiere of Hotel Rwanda. A. Kitman Ho. And Paul Rusesabagina at the InStyle Magazine 6th Annual Post Golden Globe Party - Arrivals Students from a citizenship and change class visit and have dinner with who they know as the Rwandan hero.

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8 2000 – Receives Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity.[2] 2005 – Receives Wallenberg Medal of the University of Michigan 2005 – Receives National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award 2005 – Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom[3] 2007 – Receives Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Guelph 2008 – Receives Honorary Degree from Gustavus Adolphus College 2009 – Receives Honorary Degree from Loyola University Chicago, at the Bachelor of Arts Commencement 2011 - Receives the 2011 Tom Lantos Human Rights Prize from The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice “The Rwandan Genocide.” 2012. The History Channel website. Nov 28 2012, 12:41 http://www.history.com/topics/rwandan- genocide.

9 Paul Rusesabagina has told the world that the Hutu masterminds of the 1994 genocide of Tutsis weren't all that bad and he still counts them as his friends.

10 The Survivors

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12 After living through the Rwandangenocide, Adrien Niyonshuti is now theNo 1 mountain biker on the biggestcycling team in Africa and will be,without doubt, the most extraordinaryathlete at the 2012 Olympic Games.

13 She survived the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and is an actress there today. Dida had been gang raped and carried scars across her head from a huge machete.

14 The Rwandan Genocide. The History Channel website. n.d. web. Nov. 28 2012.


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