Liberation doesn’t look the same everywhere, or to everyone, but its heartbeat? The feeling of relief and fresh air that comes with it? That’s universal. The 4th of July (I'm sure the way that I said it allows you guess exactly what comes next, but I promise, there’s a bit of a surprise information for most of you, just hang on), is a date that most of the world recognizes as the United States’ Independence Day – the day the thirteen colonies declared freedom from British rule in 1776. Yet, another equally significant liberation happened on the same date, 218 years later, in a totally different part of the world: Rwanda. On July 4th, 1994, after 100 harrowing days of genocide, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) took control of its capital, Kigali, effectively ending one of the most horrific massacres in modern history. Over 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis, were murdered. The Rwandan Liberation Day, otherwise known as Kwibohora , marks the end of that nightmare and the beginning of Rwa...