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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on April 05, 2019, 05:28:08 pm
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In 1994, 100s took shelter in this Rwanda mosque. Only 8 survived
by Hamza Mohamed 4 Apr 2019
Mabare, Rwanda - It was the first week of April 1994 and a month after the start of the long rainy season. The mountain slopes were a lush green, the fields brimming with bananas, maize and sorghum plants.
Mabare, a village in Rwanda's Eastern Province, was an oasis of calm - but trouble was brewing.
On April 6 at around 8:30pm, as people in this lakeside village were preparing to go to bed, about 50km away a surface-to-air missile shot down a jet carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana as it prepared to land in Kigali, Rwanda's capital.
Read more at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/1994-100s-shelter-rwanda-mosque-8-survived-190404091520657.html (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/1994-100s-shelter-rwanda-mosque-8-survived-190404091520657.html)