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Nyarubuye Parish

"Nobody knows how many people were killed at Nyarubuye. Some say a thousand, and some say more: fifteen hundred, two thousand, three thousand. Big differences. But body counts aren't the point in a genocide. What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claims as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime. No wonder it's so difficult to picture. To do so you must accept the principle of the exterminator, and see not people but a people." From We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with our Families, by Philip Gourevitch.