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Bush to remember Rwanda's genocide

February 20, 2008 00:00:00


KIGALI, Feb 19 (AP): President Bush visited a memorial of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on Tuesday, calling it a reminder that "evil cannot be tolerated" in the world.
On a five-nation trip of Africa, Bush went to a site in Kigali where some remains of more than 250,000 victims of the genocide are buried.
"We must not let these kind of actions take place," Bush said of the genocide against the Tutsi minority and politically moderate Hutus.
Over 100 days, roughly 800,000 people were shot, clubbed and hacked to death.
On his way to the memorial, Bush's motorcade passed squat homes tucked into red clay hillsides and the valley below.
During a tour of the memorial, Bush, his wife and senior aides saw a children's exhibit of photos and biographical information of the young people who were slaughtered.

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