Kate Chisholm

Listening to genocide – and what came next

Radio 3 finds hope as well as horror in Rwanda 20 years on

Over half a million people were massacred in Rwanda by government forces, militiamen and nationalist Hutus Photo: Getty 
issue 08 March 2014

It doesn’t take long for an international event of historic importance to fall off the news agenda. Ukraine is still there, making headlines, but soon it will be forgotten as the political drama in Kiev, Sebastopol, the Crimea is overtaken by an unfolding crisis elsewhere. We who live beyond and outwith the situation are encouraged to move on, gawping instead at another horrifying outpouring of human cruelty and misery.

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