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A quarter of a century ago, the genocide in Rwanda was coming to an end. It was a hundred days of among the bloodiest conflict the twentieth century had witnessed.

About 85% of Rwandans were Hutus but the Tutsi minority had long dominated the country. Decades of conflict gave way to a fragile peace in the early 1990s. But then in early 1994 a plane carrying Rwanda's Hutu President was shot down, killing everyone on board. This triggered a genocide. About 800 thousand people were slaughtered by ethnic Hutu extremists, targeting Tutsis, as well as their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin.

The Nine's Nasim Asl has been talking to Yolande Mugakasana who's the first survivor to write about what she experienced.