berlin or meet one of the continent's rising star novelists. i'm christine wonderwall come to the program i'm glad you're tuned in this weekend twenty five years since the start of the rwandan genocide one of the darkest and most brutal chapters in the country's history the catalyst for the genocide was the downing of the plane carrying rwanda's then president juba now. he was a hoot he was on his way back from peace talks in tanzania with tutsi rebels the very next day the massacre began over a period of just one hundred days nearly one million people most of them tutsis were killed by hutu militias became in stopped when the tutsi rebels led by a poor guy may seize the capital kigali gandhi went on to become president in two