Sunday marks 30 years since genocide engulfed the central African nation of Rwanda. That’s when Hutu extremists began the systematic slaughter of 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis. The international community largely ignored the Rwandan genocide, and considered it an “internal conflict.” To find out why, The World’s host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Philip Gourevitch, author of “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda.”
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