How to pronounce “rwandan” in English

Rwandans actually-- this has been a real challenge for us-- don't have a culture of food.

And Rwandans have come, because we are scheduling for the 20th anniversary of that genocide, a retreat in Rwanda,

Other Rwandans, those of the majority Hutu group, had fled, afraid the RPF would kill them in revenge for the slaughter of Tutsis.

because she was half Rwandan, half Indian.

You're just a Rwandan, which was a big step.

And the Rwandan Patriotic Front eventually found her.

was killed in the Rwandan massacre.

Silence is Rwandan genocide.

The average Rwandan is living off about $0.65 a day.

have prevented the Rwandan genocide?"

So they started categorizing Rwandans, studying them, measuring their noses, dividing them, and saying that the Tutsis are tall.

Yet for many Rwandans, the effects continue to haunt.

transaction to get to Kenyan shillings or Rwandan francs, the bank it sits there, and then the getting to the mobile money

I was dealing with the Rwandan authorities.

moments of mass empathic collapse like the Rwandan genocide or the Holocaust but we don't really hear about moments

And about a third are Rwandans, mainly higher class Rwandans.

now, the Rwandan government is trying to help the remaining Hutus and the remaining Tutsis work together to rebuild the country as neighbors.

So the current RPF, Rwandan Patriotic Front-led government and the state in general, has really attempted to rebuild social order and social fabric

to work in Rwanda with survivors of the Rwandan genocide.

Giving to refugees in Rwanda actually fed some of the Rwandan soldiers that were responsible for the genocide.

you'll see a lot of Rwanda coffee Rwanda Rwandan coffee is kind of the glamour one of the one of the success stories of

Are the people that mostly come in native Rwandans or more tourists?

And on the 7th, the Rwandan Armed Forces and the Interahamwe Militia started the systematic killing of Tutsi and moderate Hutus.

in a way that is dignifying and in a way that is led by the Rwandan people and by our friends.

because before the colonial era, the Rwandans did not have tribes or ethnics.

And just to provide a statistic, 60% of Rwandans living in Rwanda are under the age of 25, like Gakire.

and coffee buyers H have have kind of come together to work with the rwandans

So when I was 18, I got the chance to go to the Rwandan genocide museum and learn the history and background of the genocide

One of the parallels being the Rwandan genocide and abortion.

So I was actually born and raised in Kigali, and I'm half Rwandan.

This is something I thought I'd bring up here actually: I was talking to a Rwandan diplomat in Washington a few weeks ago and he said, "Michael how do I get somebody to write about

the heads, prospectively, of the Rwandan leaders and save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, or to say, "No, we shouldn't do that," and let the Rwandan genocide occur?

And we can do that in all sorts of ways even in simple things like buying the Rwandan coffee.

But the scars are living with these people, are living with Rwandans, and we don't know necessarily when they're going to manifest themselves or in what ways.

Yes, a few of the biggest, most well-funded groups are Rwandan backed.

She focuses on memorials, rebuilding, and the transitional justice of the Rwandan community.

And on the 4th of July in 1994, the Rwandan Patriotic Front and the Rwandan Patriotic Army, who had been in exile in Uganda, came in,

to provide security, to combat genocide ideology and denial, and to reunite the country under the Banyarwanda, that we are all Rwandan, we are all one Rwandan people.

Hi, can you talk a little bit more about transitional justice and in the context of the Rwandan Genocide, maybe just give us more details

And many years ago, in 1998, when the conflict re-emerged there, the US government-- I think out of guilt over not acting during the Rwandan

Michael Skoler: I drove in from the north and entered the part of Rwanda held by the Tutsi land rebel army, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, or RPF.

backgrounds would come together in one city in Medina through the great Muslim empires of Cordoba, and the Fatimids, and Bagdad through Akbar and the Ottomans, through what Rwandan

So I believe the stat is, yeah, an estimated 1 million Rwandans were killed during the genocide, 20% of the population.

This is Omar, who is standing in Nyamata Memorial Church, where nearly 335,000 Rwandans were massacred in early April 1994.

And the thing that was so manifest to me is that, yes, all these Rwandans were overwhelmingly very, very poor.