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Rwandan genocide anniversary: How Rwanda's women rebuilt their country

By Lydia Smith Caritas Mukagatana leads a beekeeping cooperative in the southern district of Nyaruguru Alison Wright. "I had a large family but out of that family only me, two of my children and my brother-in-law's children survived," says Caritas Mukagatana. Before 1994, she led a contented life as a farmer and earned enough money to feed her family. That year, in the three months from April to June, Mukagatana was widowed, lost her livelihood and lost her three-year-old daughter. The majority of Mukagatana's family were killed over the 100-day period in which an estimated 800,000 Rwandans lost their lives. Thousands of people were slaughtered every day, in a systematic attempt to exterminate the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates in allegiance to a supremacist ideology promoted by Hutu extremists. Most survivors were women - many of whom had experienced extreme trauma and sexual violence. When the violence broke out, Mukagatana escaped with he...

Motel owner secretly watched guests have sex, deal drugs and murder over 29 years

By Maria Khan Man bought a motel and watched his guests have sex for years through fake ceiling vents installed in the rooms.Getty Images A motel owner has reportedly been peeping at guests for over 29 years at his Manor House Motel in Denver, Colorado. Gerald Foos purchased a motel in 1969 and secretly observed his guests have sex, use the bathroom, and a lot more through the rooms' fake ceiling vents, although he claims to have been a voyeur since 1966. Foos could face investigations over a 1977 murder and several drug related crimes that he was a witness to. Foos was a witness to the murder but failed to relate the account to the police when questioned. He says he did not act at the time since, "he was only an observer and not a reporter, and really didn't exist as far as the male and female subjects were concerned." The married father of two first opened up about his  voyeurism when he contacted journalist Gay Talese in 1980 in a handwri...