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Rwanda may lift ban on teaching its sensitive history [audio 5min]

Rwanda's public school students may be allowed to study their national history for the first time since a bloody ethnic conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis in 1994 led to the killing of nearly a million Rwandans. But even if officials lift the ban, controversy about what history to teach will remain. Report by Jeanne Baron.
Read entire article at NPR "All Things Considered"