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Two important events in June are reminders of two genocides. The
first is the Rwanda massacre, which has gone down in history as the
worst documented genocide, and the second is the drama of Srebrenica.

World leaders remember both with their heads bowed. 'We should
never have allowed it,' they say, but it happened anyway.

Let us travel back in time. On April 7, 1995, the Rwandan Army,
largely made up of Hutus, embarked on the genocide of the Tutsi
minority in the country, and the world sat back and merely watched
one of the worst slaughters of the century. The concept of a 'superior
race,' one of the major obsessions and worst frauds of materialist
thinking, was applied to the people of Rwanda, who had lived together
in peace for many years.

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