The killings of the clergy at Kabgayi is today more widely known than the death camp bearing the same name located nearby. In June, BBC reporter Mark Doyle recounts, newsrooms around the Western world seized on the story of the RPF murders of the twelve clergy ‘with undisguised glee’. It was proof at last that the ‘other side’ was just as evil. Doyle wrote, ‘The problem was that this was not the proof of moral equivalence that could make the world feel okay about dismissing the whole Rwandan business as African chaos. This was not the balancing item that would make it okay to forget about the
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