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> [Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/given-the-scale-of-trauma-caused-by-the-genocide-rwanda-has-indicated/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

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> [Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/payam-akhavan/helping-survivors-of-residential-schools-in-canada-is-not-the-same-as/)

[Payam Akhavan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/payam-akhavan/)

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> [Post-genocide Rwanda has managed to implement a good universal health insurance scheme that covers a large proportion of the population. This came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-robinson/post-genocide-rwanda-has-managed-to-implement-a-good-universal-health/)

[Mary Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-robinson/)

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> [The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samantha-power/the-story-of-u-s-policy-during-the-genocide-in-rwanda-is-not-a-story/)

[Samantha Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samantha-power/)

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> [The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-orbinski/the-genocide-in-rwanda-was-a-collective-act-what-made-it-possible/)

[James Orbinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-orbinski/)

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