rwanda

A greedy poor man tests the patience of Imana, Lord of Rwanda, until he loses everything.

During a one-hundred-day period in 1994 Hutu extremists murdered over a half million Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda using unspeakable methods. Little or nothing was done by the international community to stop the genocide.

Romeo Dallaire was the force commander of the UN Assistance Mission to Rwanda in 1993-1994. His small peacekeeping force found themselves abandoned by the world's major powers and caught up in civil war and genocide. He and his forces managed to rescue thousands but his calls for support went unanswered and he still witnessed the murder of 800,000 Rwandans in one hundred days. He is the highest ranking military officer ever to suffer openly with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He is currently a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Contains a full narrative account of the events surrounding the mass killing of one million people in Rwanda in 1994.

Profiles the life of the scientist who studied mountain gorillas in central Africa and worked to ensure their survival.

Describes the life of the scientist and her accomplishments working with gorillas in Africa.

Outlines the circumstances that led to the genocide in Rwanda, where nearly one million people of an ethnic minority were exterminated in one hundred days, and discusses international reactions and the aftermath.