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Powerful Portraits Show Perpetrators and Victims of Rwandan Genocide Posing Together

Powerful Portraits Show Perpetrators and Victims of Rwandan Genocide Posing Together

A man and woman sit side by side on a wooden bench indoors, holding hands. The woman wears a pink headscarf and patterned dress, while the man wears a green shirt and blue pants. Several piglets walk on the floor near them.

The 1994 genocide in Rwanda was one of the most intimate and large-scale acts of violence of the 20th century. In just 100 days, between 800,000 and one million people were killed, mainly Tutsis but also Hutus. Perpetrators were neighbors, teachers, church leaders, even family members, who attacked face-to-face with machetes, clubs, and spears.

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