In 1994, a plane crash killed Rwanda’s president, Juvénal Habyarimana. Over the next 100 days, the Hutu majority killed around 800,000 Tutsi who were blamed for the president’s death.
In the aftermath of this ghastly genocide, the country needed to figure out how to move forward. Concerned about renewed violence, the newly formed government created a justice and reconciliation process to ensure that all Rwandans live side by side peacefully. This would be achieved by establishing “Reconciliati