Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali once said: “We did not know that with a simple machete, you can commit genocide. » To be honest, no one predicted the Rwandan genocide that took place in 1994. The Rwanda genocide was an infamous blood-red blur in modern history, where nearly a million innocent people were murdered composure. Tutsi tribesmen were systematically bludgeoned or beaten to death by members of the Interahamwe, a militia composed of Hutu tribesmen. In just 100 days, from April 6, 1994 to mid-July, 20% of the Rwandan population was killed; around 10,000 people per day. Bodies were literally scattered throughout the streets of the city. Genocide obviously violates almost every article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; However, the article I find most important is Article 3 – the right to life, liberty and personal security. In just 100 days, a million people were denied the most fundamental privilege afforded to any human being: the right to live, simply because they were born into the wrong tribe. It is impossible to even imagine the scale of the hatred, destruction and massacre that took place. happened in Rwanda during these 100 days. Linda Melvern, on the website of the International Development Research Center, describes in an article the Gikondo massacre, one of the bloodiest massacres of the genocide. On the third day of unrest, around 500 Tutsi, including many children, gathered at a church in the middle of Kigali, having stepped over the bodies of their neighbors to get there. They implored the protection of the clergy. The priest did his best, but soldiers from the presidential guard arrived and accused the church of harboring evil. He then left, telling the soldiers not to waste their bullets; the Interahamwe, he said, would arrive with... middle of paper... the hills of Rwanda will never be forgotten, nor will the unspeakable horrors that cost them their lives. Every person in this world must realize that we are all humans, we are all the same, and we must all work to promote peace. Above all, we must never allow such violence, massacres and bloodshed to happen again. Works Cited January, Brendan. Genocide: modern crimes against humanity. Minneapolis: Twenty-FirstCentury Books, 2007. Print. Jansen, Hanna. Over a thousand hills I walk with you. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc, 2002. Print. “Hiding from death”. 60 Minutes. CBS. WCBS-TV, New York. December 3, 2006. Television. “Rwanda 1994”. ppu.org.uk. Peace Pledge Union, nd Web. May 14. 2010. Melvern, Linda. “The story is missing: the media and the Rwandan genocide. » crdi.ca. International Development Research Center, nd Web. May 14. 2010.