Great Lakes refugee crisis

Great Lakes refugee crisis The Great Lakes refugee crisis is the common name for the situation beginning with the exodus in April 1994 of over two million Rwandans to neighboring countries of the Great Lakes region of Africa in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. Quotes "There was nothing but people. The hills were covered with a moving mass. The entire African landscape was awash with people, all headed our way." "We climbed a mountain of dilemmas every day," says Filippo Grandi, a senior UNHCR official who spent many months at the heart of the operation. "And we were all scarred permanently." "There was no movement. There was no information," she recalls now. "Had the genocide swallowed these people up as well? Did they even exist? We were looking for clues in a vacuum and it was eerie." External link