In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan…

“We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.”

— John Rucyahana

“But did it have to be that those who were most damaged by the genocide remained the most neglected in the aftermath? Bonaventure Nyibizi…

— Philip Gourevitch

“...The typhoon of madness that swept through the country [of Rwanda] between April 7 and the third week of May accounted for 80 percent…

— John Rucyahana

“The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception.”

— John Rucyahana

This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had…

— Park Geun-hye

Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.

— Stephen Kinzer

Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it…

— Immaculee Ilibagiza

I think the only value of 'Hotel Rwanda' is the fact that it keeps the Rwandan genocide alive, but as far as content, it's…

— Romeo Dallaire

Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. But…

— Payam Akhavan

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero…

— Wole Soyinka

“(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:) Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then…

— Jared Diamond

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

— Philip Gourevitch

“{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a…

— John Rucyahana

“What I learned in Rwanda was that God is not absent when great evil is unleashed. Whether that evil is man-made or helped along…

— James Riordan

“I knew that to really minister to Rwanda's needs meant working toward reconciliation in the prisons, in the churches, and in the cities and…

— John Rucyahana