http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1422 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/undergraduates-observe-rwandan-attempts-justice <!--paging_filter--><p>The Rwandan genocide memorial was a tiny one-room church, pervaded<br /> still by a penetrating stench. On a table in the church was a pile of<br /> human skulls and femurs, a startling reminder of the people who sought<br /> shelter there in 1994 when the killers came calling.</p> <p> "It just struck me that in this one church 5,000 people died, innocent<br /> people, and the world didn't blink an eye," said Harvard junior Leila<br /> Chirayath. </p> <p>Chirayath and five other Harvard undergraduates spent six weeks in<br /> Rwanda last summer studying how the Rwandan government is seeking<br /> justice for the estimated 500,000 mostly minority Tutsis killed when<br /> the small east African country erupted in vicious widespread ethnic<br /> violence. </p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/undergraduates-observe-rwandan-attempts-justice">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:24:04 -0400 70652986 3237 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu