Rwanda: Travels to Rwanda

"The essence of conflicts and killings is the emphasis of "otherness," enabling us to consider others as "different" from us, or inferior to us. Thus in Rwanda, the Tutsi were so often and publicly called "inyenzi" or cockroaches that killing them was like killing bugs and easy to do." Kenya National Commission on Human Rights chairman Maina Kiai recounts his experience in Rwanda, where he traveled with a group of Kenyan MPs to see first hand the effects of the 1994 genocide which left more than a million people dead.