Hello and welcome back to the program that helps you learn and improve your American English ...and shows you our world ...As It Is. Im Jim Tedder in Washington. Today we turn the clock back 20 years to a time of horror in Rwanda.
Then we will look forward a day or so to elections in Afghanistan. There may be many young people helping to decide the countrys leaders. How do they feel about an often violent past, and hopes for the future?
And near the end, well let you hear what America was listening to, 50 years ago this week. You are listening to .
Twenty years have passed since hundreds of thousands of people were killed across Rwanda in just a few months. Members of the countrys ethnic Hutu majority killed about 70 percent of the minority Tutsis, and many moderate Hutus.
Officials from a Holocaust memorial in the United States are visiting places throughout Rwanda. They are finding connections between two of the worst mass killings in the 20th century.
Christopher Cruise joins us with more.
Skulls and bones fill the back wall of the Ntarama Church Memorial near Kigali.
You can see how what has been, way to kill them. Some of them have been macheted mostly...
A guide says about 5,000 people were killed in this area during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Visitors to the church can see coffins holding some of the dead. The victims old clothing hangs from ropes tied to the top of the building.
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