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Rwanda: gorillas and history

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When I was a kid, I always liked mountain gorillas, because I knew countries like Rwanda or Democratic Republic of the Congo. Today I will tell about Rwanda, this is small country located in central África, it has 12 millon inhabitants, compound of the Hutus (majory), Tutsi and Twa ethnic. Although their native language is Kinyarwanda, he also speaks English. The country was known on the planet for the genocide executed by the Hutu ethnic group against the Tutsi, in complicity with the government. If I were to go rwanda in the future, the first thing I visit would be the mountain gorillas in the volcanoes national park, staying many days trying to find them in the jungles. This is where Dian Fossey (my heroine) studied and protected the gorillas, before she was killed. Then I would go to see the chimpanzee at the Nyungwe Forest National Park. Finally I would visited at the Ethnographic Museum in the Kigali (capital), but especially The Kigali Genocide Memorial, to pay my respects to th