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Tanya Offereins Hawke



May 21st, 2008

In the Face of War

Annonciata Kalinijabo couldn’t hold back the tears as she updated her husband over the telephone. Rwanda was at war. Life in Kigali, the capital, was mayhem. What’s more, a cousin had just told her that Tutsi rebels were installing a military tank on the hillside near their home. Three days earlier, on April 6, 1994, an airplane carrying Rwanda ’s president had been shot down causing tensions between the country’s two major tribes, the... > Full Story
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