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Looking back at the Rwandan genocide

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Rwanda genocide memorial
In this 2004 file photo, a survivor from the 1994 Rwandan genocide lights candles at a mass grave in Nyamata, Rwanda Tuesday April 6, 2004 -- marking the 10th anniversary of the genocide that began on April 7, 1994 and in which 500,000 people were killed.
Sayyid Azim/Associated Press

A Minnesota law professor is jailed in Rwanda, charged with denying that country's 1994 genocide. Peter Erlinder doesn't deny mass violence happened, but says it's wrong to blame just one side.

Midday features an American RadioWorks documentary, released on the 10th anniversary of the massacre, about what happened in Rwanda when the central African nation exploded in violence.

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Rwanda genocide memorial
In this 2004 file photo, a survivor from the 1994 Rwandan genocide lights candles at a mass grave in Nyamata, Rwanda Tuesday April 6, 2004 -- marking the 10th anniversary of the genocide that began on April 7, 1994 and in which 500,000 people were killed.
Sayyid Azim/Associated Press