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Eleventy22 t1_iuahhid wrote

Reply to comment by okcrumpet in Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century. by filosoful

Wasn’t Rwanda subjected to a genocidal purge of 800k people in a 3 month window which then turned into a larger regional war that cost the lives of over 5 million?

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casualsubversive t1_iucb9qg wrote

That is part of the "difficult (sometimes violent) process of forming a nation state" they referenced. And that was almost 30 years ago. Post genocide, Rwanda is very successful, by certain metrics. But it's no Western European liberal democracy.

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