The genocide had just begun, and she was still bleeding from two machete wounds on either side ... told hundreds of times to children across Rwanda over the past 25 years, although rarely told ...

Genocides do not start with bullets or machetes, they begin with hate speech ... The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda began with decades of hate speech exacerbated by ethnic tensions.

Nyabimana (first name unknown), 26, shows machete wounds at an International Committee of the Red Cross Hospital in Nyanza, some 35 miles southwest of Kigali, Rwanda June 4, 1994. – AP Photo / ...