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Fergal Keane reports on Rwanda’s “season of blood” Rwanda is a country that was in pain but wasn’t screaming. Silence.

"That’s what I remember most- silence. Just an endless, screaming silence. (Fergal Keane, interview with PBS, 19 March 2004) BBC correspondent Fergal Keane was in 1994 among the first Western journalists witnessing the immediate aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.

In an attempt to cut down all the “tall trees”, hundred days of unprecedented slaughter by Hutu extremists left over 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead in a country Keane knew nothing about because “all African correspondents were fixated by […] Somalia and the US intervention there, and South Africa’s transition to democracy.”

Keane produced a series of articles, two BBC Panorama documentaries and a book on the Rwandan tragedy (Season of Blood) because, he feels, ignoring evil makes people “the authors of a guilty silence.” This analysis is based on three articles in a collection of his favourite pieces of work, the book Letter to Daniel, which give a personal account of what Keane has witnessed while reporting on the genocide.

Keane almost tangibly describes what happened at the Nyarubuye killing ground where several thousands of Tutsis, who sought protection in a Catholic church, were hacked to death with machetes, knives, clubs and stones by their Hutu neighbours.

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