Colonial Roots of the Genocide in Rwanda

This documentary traces the colonial roots of the 1994 genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi minority, in which up to a million people were killed. It follows Samuel Ishimwe, whose parents were murdered when he was a toddler, as he sets out to understand what set the atrocity in motion. The film connects the horror to a longer history of division and manipulation. Moving and important, it seeks understanding amid unimaginable loss. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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