WATCH: ‘Football saved my life’ says genocide survivor

The Lid is On by UN Global Communications (Digital Solutions Unit)

Sep 26, 202516:35News & Politics

April 7 marks three decades since the beginning of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. An almost unimaginable slaughter, which saw an estimated 800,000 people killed in just 100 days, and shocked the world. Er...

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