Rwanda economy thriving as country moves past genocide

By Shashank Bengali of McClatchy Newspapers

"KIGALI, Rwanda — When President Bush came here last month on his five-nation Africa tour, he paid a solemn visit to the site where 250,000 victims of the 1994 genocide are buried, laying a wreath and strolling quietly along a row of concrete slabs marking mass graves.

But government officials here say Bush's more important act that day was something else: He signed a deal to promote bilateral U.S.-Rwandan investment."

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