Back 13 years to the Rwanda Massacres and the angry mobs that missed a commandment or two, or three… and murdered thy neighbors….

Last month the Rwanda government started releasing people by the thousands whoRwanda Genocide - 800,000+ dead in 90 days"> took part in one of the worst, if not the worst massacre in modern times, the genocide of the Tutsi people in Rwanda.

The people released are the same ones who massacred 800,000 + men women and children in the course of 90 days as a mob and most wanting only the property of the people they killed in mass.

The release of these killers has angered the people of Rwanda who are still trying to heal 13 years later. They are afraid the mob mentality and greed may again set into the poverty stricken and killings may begin again.

The world watched the slaughter and some estimates say 1 million may have been killed in Rwanda before the UN stepped in and sent in a few more troops.

The Hutu, now without opposition from the world community, engaged in genocidal mania, clubbing and hacking to death defenseless Tutsi families with machetes everywhere they were found. The Rwandan state radio, controlled by Hutu extremists, further encouraged the killings by broadcasting non-stop hate propaganda and even pinpointed the locations of Tutsis in hiding. The killers were aided by members of the Hutu professional class including journalists, doctors and educators, along with unemployed Hutu youths and peasants who killed Tutsis just to steal their property.

Many Tutsis took refuge in churches and mission compounds. These places became the scenes of some of the worst massacres. In one case, at Musha, 1,200 Tutsis who had sought refuge were killed beginning at 8 a.m. lasting until the evening. Hospitals also became prime targets as wounded survivors were sought out then killed.

In some local villages, militiamen forced Hutus to kill their Tutsi neighbors or face a death sentence for themselves and their entire families. They also forced Tutsis to kill members of their own families.

By mid May, an estimated 500,000 Tutsis had been slaughtered. Bodies were now commonly seen floating down the Kigara River into Lake Victoria.

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In the course of a few months in 1994, around 1 million people were killed in Rwanda, slaughter on a scale not seen since the Nazi extermination program against the Jews. The killing rate in Rwanda was five times that achieved by the Nazis.

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