In 1994 one of the worst genocides in the history of the world happened in the African country of Rwanda. It's incredible how little was known about this terrible act when it was happening. The hate that entered into the hearts of the people in Rwanda caused almost one million deaths.

There where two tribes: the Hutu tribe (majority) and the Tutsi tribe (minority). The effects of a long time racial discrimination between the two tribe (cause by the Belgians) ended up in a bloody ethnic cleansing. The Hutu tribe attacked the the Tutsi tribe and murdered them. The Hutu's goal was to wipe the Tutsis off of the face of the earth. They murdered the old, the young, and everyone in between.

The horrific things that were happening in Rwanda forced many people to leave their homes and it created a lot of refugees. This picture is from a refugee camp in Zaire. The camps members either had to walk a really long way to get their water or wait in enormous lines to get water that the tank trucks brought in.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people from Haiti that have been displaced from their homes because of the earthquake. They are now refugees because of the earthquake and will have to live in the meager conditions of refugees camps as well.

Salgado, Sebastião. Photograph. 1996 Migrations: Humanity in Transition. 18 Feb. 2010

Ilibagiza, Immaculee. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. Hay House, Inc. 2006