Aftermath
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What was left...After the genocide had ended, the country was left in ruins. Cities and towns were completely ransacked. Since many people were either deported or murdered off, the cities and towns almost seemed like ghost towns. With no water and no food people were not able to live there. Also, the corpses of countless victims lines the streets and ditches from the mass slaughtering (Ransacked, 2014).
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The Population
Everything had been either destroyed or ransacked including the schools and hospitals. Staff that worked at the schools or hospitals were either killed or fled the country. Also, in the entire country, there were six judges, ten lawyers, and no police. So, there was basically no one there to enforce the law. In addition, around 250,000 women had been widowed and 100,000 children had been separated from their families, lost, or abducted. Out of all of the children, about 90 percent of them thought they would die in the genocide. So, many didn't believe that they would live to see adulthood. Some children were even accused of murder. About 300,000 children were killed in the genocide. No one knows for sure how many people died, but it is generally assumed that around 800,000 peopled died (Ransacked, 2014)