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In Rwanda, Bush Mourns 2 Conflicts

KIGALI, Rwanda — Skeletons are still being discovered and buried in mass graves on a terraced hillside in this lush, verdant city, the legacy of the gruesome genocide in which 800,000 Rwandans, many of them children, were slaughtered over 100 days in 1994.

So when President Bush paid his respects to the dead on Tuesday, laying a wreath and touring a museum where the skulls of victims are laid out under glass in haunting, neat white rows, the subject of another conflict that Mr. Bush has called a genocide — in Darfur — was bound to come up.
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