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| Morning NewsCNN 20: Massacre in Rwanda, April 21, 1994Aired April 21, 2000 - 10:27 a.m. ETTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: It was six years ago that the world was shocked by the news of massacres in Rwanda. A look back in our "CNN 20" segment. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GARY STRIEKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We were the first journalists to reach that scene, and there was no one around alive for miles, everyone had fled. There were hundreds of bodies piled up on the grounds of the church and the adjacent school, a few men, but mostly women and children. And to see something like that, so much death around you, and to be filming that, was a very heavy responsibility. There had been a civil war going on in the country prior to that, and the United Nations had helped to arrange a ceasefire between the two groups. Apparently, elements in the ruling party were responsible for bringing down the president's plane as a pretext for demolishing the ceasefire arrangement, and to give them the basis to carry out what they considered to be a "final solution" to the Tutsi-Hutu conflict. And that was to massacre as many Tutsis as they could find. The outcome of the massacre was that several hundred thousand people were jailed, there are still thousands of people in prison in Rwanda awaiting trial. It could take decades for them to try all these people. (END VIDEOTAPE) TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com |
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