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BIZARRE: Refugees on healing path 30 years after rwanda genocide | Mind Blowing Facts

Rwandan refugees and survivors gathered in Sydney to mark 30 years since the nation's genocide. (Farid Farid/AAP PHOTOS)

Noel Zihabamwe was nine years old when he lay down in the back of a ute, spreading the blood of other young victims on his neck as he pretended to be dead to escape death in Rwanda.

It was the height of the 100-day genocide that claimed about 800,000 lives in April 1994 when members of the majority ethnic Hutus and minority Tutsis and Twa were killed in a bloodbath perpetrated by extremist militias.

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