Though Rwanda has come a long way since the 1994 genocide, scars of the past still haunt the nation
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FILE - Rwandan refugees hold their hands up and ask for help from Belgian soldiers, who had come to a psychiatric hospital compound outside of Kigali on April 13, 1994. People are patients of this hospital. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, File)FILE - Nyabimana (first name unknown), 26, who was evacuated after being found by the Red Cross wandering in Kabgayi, about 15 miles southwest of the capital Kigali, shows machete wounds at an International Committee of the Red Cross hospital in Nyanza, about 35 miles southwest of Kigali, in Rwanda, June 4, 1994. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)FILE - A young orphan, his legs amputated below the knee, rests on a foam cushion near his artificial limbs at an orphanage in Nyanza, about 35 miles southwest of the capital Kigali, Rwanda, June 9, 1994. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)FILE - A Rwandan Hutu refugee child desperately tries to waken his mother from a diseased sleep in the Munigi camp outside Goma, in Zaire, now known as Congo, July 27, 1994. (AP Photo/Javier Bauluz, File)EDS NOTE: NUDITY - FILE - A Rwandan child too weak to stand in line to receive a vaccination, rests his head at the SOS village orphanage housing about 3,000 Rwandan children in the crowded encampment in Ndosho near Goma, in Zaire, now known as Congo, July 28, 1994, (AP Photo/Jacqueline Arzt Larma, File)EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - A French army pay loader pushes bodies toward a mass grave at the Kimbumba refugee camp near Goma, Zaire, now Congo, Aug. 1, 1994. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Arzt Larma, File)FILE - A Zairean relief worker lifts a severely ill Rwandan refugee at the Mugunga camp near Goma, Zaire, now Congo, on July 29, 1994. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, File)FILE - Rwandan refugee children scramble for loose beans at a food distribution center in the Kibumbu refugee camp near Goma, Zaire, now Congo, Aug. 13, 1994. (AP Photo/Santiago Lyon, File)FILE - Some of the 334 inmates in a prison who are accused of committing war crimes and participating in the genocide, sit in the prison in Kibungo, Rwanda, Aug. 17, 1994. (AP Photo/Javier Bauluz, File)FILE - Rwandan refugee children plead with Zairean soldiers to allow them across a bridge separating Rwanda and Zaire where their mothers had crossed moments earlier before the soldiers closed the border, in Zaire, now known as Congo, Aug. 20, 1994. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)FILE - Rwandan refugees cross the bridge of Rumumo river which marks the border between Tanzania and Rwanda, Dec. 14, 1996. Hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees who fled their country after the 1994 civil war started their way towards Rwanda. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File)FILE - A Belgian soldier guards the front of a house, where Belgians wait to be evacuated out of Kigali, Rwanda, April 13, 1994. Belgian forces rescued several Belgians who lived in a compound in the Rwanda capital, running the Ndere psychiatric hospital. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, File)FILE - Tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees, who have been forced by the Tanzanian authorities to return to their country despite fears they will be killed upon their return, stream back towards the Rwandan border on a road in Tanzania, Dec. 19, 1996. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)FILE - A young Rwanda boy looks at a Belgian soldier in defensive position during a halt of a UN convoy in Kigali, Rwanda, April 13, 1994. The soldiers' mission is to evacuate all foreign citizens from Rwanda to protect them from being massacred by the warring Hutu and Tutsi factions. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)FILE - A boy who survived a massacre in the village of Karubamba in April and whose leg was wounded by a machete, rests on his crutches at a hospital near Gahini, in Rwanda, May 13, 1994. The massacres, mostly by gangs wielding machetes, swept across Rwanda and groups of people were killed in their homes and farms and where they sought shelter in churches and schools. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - The body of a man, who survivors say was a primary school teacher, lies beneath a blackboard drawing of Africa in a classroom at a school in Karubamba, some 27 miles northeast of the Rwandan capital of Kigali, May 13, 1994. The man was among hundreds of people in the small Rwandan village that were massacred in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)FILE - A pickup truck carries Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebels to front line positions closer to the capital Kigali, on the road near Rugende, about 5 miles east of Kigali, in Rwanda, May 14, 1994. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)FILE - Refugees who fled the ethnic bloodbath in neighboring Rwanda carry water containers back to their huts at the Benaco refugee camp in Tanzania, near the border with Rwanda, May 17, 1994. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, File)FILE - A Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) rebel walks on May 23, 1994, by the plane wreckage in Kigali in which Rwanda's late President Juvenal Habyarimana died on April 6. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File).EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - The bodies of a woman and her child lie by a church in Nyarubuye parish, which was the site of an April 14 massacre that survivors say was perpetrated by a militia assisted by government gendarmes, about 95 miles east of the capital Kigali, in Rwanda, May 31, 1994. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)
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FILE - Rwandan refugees hold their hands up and ask for help from Belgian soldiers, who had come to a psychiatric hospital compound outside of Kigali on April 13, 1994. People are patients of this hospital. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, File)