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 KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - Overlooking this city's red, dusty hills where thousands were killed, Laura Bush on Thursday urged Rwandans not to lose hope as they try to heal the pain — "still so fresh" — of their country's genocide.
She drew a parallel to U.S. history, saying, "We haven't totally moved on" from slavery 130 years after the Civil War.
"Of course there's no slavery any more," she told a group of Rwandan schoolgirls, one of whom had asked her how America dealt with the aftermath of its internal conflict. "But I don't know that we've totally reconciled what it means to our history," the U.S. first lady said.
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