After The Rwandan Genocide

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After the victory RPF the government agreed with Pasteur Bizimungu, a Hutu, as president and Paul Kagame, a Tutsi, as vice president. The UN also stayed and revamped the UNAMIR operation in Rwanda, which remained in Rwanda until 1996. The effect the genocide had on people after the genocide was done was immeasurable. People were scared and torture as they saw their loved ones died and they also feared the loss of their own life. Estimated 100,000 children were orphaned, abducted, or abandoned.
Fact: 26% of the Rwandan population still suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder today. “Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world...and that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened

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