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Earl F. Hilliard: “This is an example of what was happening. Here is a baby that was hacked to death, as my colleagues can see, its limbs…”

On the recordMay 5, 1998
This is an example of what was happening. Here is a baby that was hacked to death, as my colleagues can see, its limbs hacked off. This is one genocide site. And people went to seek shelter and refuge in churches and in schools because they were told that this was a place of safe haven. Even in the churches they were shot to death, macheted to death, hacked to death by the thousands. Here we can see the remaining skulls at one of these genocide sites, obviously a school or a church. Here is a young woman who has been hacked. This is what was happening on the ground while we in Washington and in Belgium and in Paris looked the other way. This is what was happening on the ground in Rwanda.
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Earl F. Hilliard
Alabama

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Addressing the genocide in Rwanda and the international community's inaction.

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