How Did the Rwandan Genocide Happen?

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Rwanda experienced one of the worst atrocities in human history in 1994. Here's what happened.

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Yanagizawa-Drott, David. "Propaganda and Conflict: Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide *." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 129, no. 4 (2014): 1947-994. doi:10.1093/qje/qju020.

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