berlin we'll meet one of the continent's rising star novelists. i'm christine one bill welcome to the program i'm glad your chin did this weekend marks twenty five years since the start of the rwandan genocide one of the dockets and most brutal chapters in the country's history the catalyst for the genocide was the downing of a plane carrying then president juvenile. he was a hutu he was on his way back from peace talks in tanzania with tutsi rebels the very next day the massacre of a period of just one hundred days nearly one million people most of them tutsis were killed by hutu militias they can install when the tutsi rebels led by a poor guy may seize the capital kigali a-gon they went on to become president in