In sharp contrast, the Rwanda Ministry of Local Government in December 2001 published a preliminary report endorsed by the national government, and the figure of just over 1 million was cited. This figure was based on a census carried out six years after the genocide in July 2000, during which the names of 951,018 victims were established. The report recommended further investigation, saying that the census encountered ‘constraints that mean it is not perfect’. It cited, for example, ‘the lack of reliable information in some regions where entire families were wiped out; omissions due to memory
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