Rwanda is best described as a land of one thousand hills…the Alps of Africa.  But the beauty and serenity of the landscape today belies its recent past when Rwanda turned into a living hell. In 1994 its 8 million people endured a travesty that will take generations to overcome. While the rest of the world turned down pleas for help, Hutu extremists committed genocide against the minority Tutsi population. In just three months, an estimated 800,000 people were massacred (see a short video of Rwanda).