me to bring you the story behind the news. we wrote about unbiased information for 3 months. the this, the state of the news that for to coming up on the program 800000 people murdered in just a 100 days, 3 decades off to the ones in genocide. can they ever be completed reconciliation? it was mass killing, ordered from the top, meticulously planned and executed without this to things. and margaret horses master could with machetes by vigilantes that bruce blocks with husbands, even killing their wives. many slip to churches hoping to find sanction. but there was none. we made sense how to manage to escape the killing in

a church that became a mess burial ground. and we talked to a residence full makers who discovered the colonial roots of the genocide held germany and belgium sees and used one to at the start of the 20th century. sowing the seeds of division at the liberal of divide and conquer the hello cassim adult. welcome to this special edition of the program. we're looking back at the 1994 genocide in one to the east african nation is mocking 30 years since the start of a 100 day mess because in which 800000 people was floated. the killings were mostly carried out by extremists, from the countries majority, instantly quarters again of the influential minority towards the population,

but also moderate horses. here's a reminder of how this brutal civil conflict shocked the world. and just to warn you, much of what you're about to see is distressing. april 1994 and a plane carrying lawanda is presidents. i just bermonte and counts of politics shut down of. okay, calling. juvenile. happy you, ramona, and superior and a how to mirror a kilt along with everyone on board the basement of ethnic hutus. the next day, the genocide begins either 100 days, gangs of many who, 2 extremes slots, a hundreds of thousands, mostly ethnic tutsis, orchestrated by the rewan denobia militia, neighbors turning on neighbors. the club submissions these thousands heads of churches, many after being offered to show and says that they would be safe, but nowhere is safe cheese. the lights are recognized as the science of numerous

mass killings. the extreme threats of life pushes masses of people to one does borders. sexual violence is also used as a weapon with as many as 250000 women raped during the genocide behind the buns. the violence is it back and with the power which we want is ruling hutus and the touch, the dominated, lawanda patch. you all take front rebel, great for the mass. mad. you eventually coming to an end. we now p. f fights has reached the capital pic ali in july 19. 94 may have to do lead by pull to gummy. the wind is coming presidents in the days that followed up and takes control of the country. arresting those accused of being involved in the genocide over the years

since tens of thousands of, of london's have been convicted. but 100 small suspects are still at large the numbers of the data are impossible to comprehend. to take the example of the yeah, my son genocide, memorial sites. a single church with $5000.00 people limited over the course of 3 days, the w's. mario miller reports from the side of one of the worst mess because of the genocide it's not often that sometimes finds the strings to come here to a former church. now a memorial to the rhonda genocide, she says this is the place where she refused to die. clung to tell me, were you coming back to this place 30 years later? i think there is still a big wound, but it helps me to remember many of the people who died here, man, according to their belongings,

are still here frozen in time. and each piece tells the tale. a person's elbows tightly tied behind their back before being executed, toddlers killed with their parents. the killings that started a few days earlier, many to 2 families, including some talent, had children, sued refuge here, thinking they'd be safe. this time of good and not the 1st stay through grenades into the church, and many people lost their legs. i was so much screaming. those who tried to leave the church were hacked with machetes. the place of saying to me, turned into a burial ground. the remains of more than 45000 people rest at the memorial side. someone display a reminder of the massacre. shantelle managed to escape, a judge was injured. at the corner in that we fled to

a nearby school when i felt something hit me in the mouth and other parts of my body where i was holding my kids. i think it was a grenade. then i saw that one of my babies had been killed and that able, she had a nearby bushes at the end at a home with the who to munitions. committing the genocide found her intact her with a machete to a rock at her head. the friend lying next to her hiding under banana leaves was done to life safety wounded when he came back, often they rammed a spear and to me, mocking us saying, you cockroach has don't die easily. i stayed in there for some time. my wounds were rod and comforting had maggots falling out of them. days later has been found and brought her to safety. so take a moment to se another community is trying to reconcile with the past and move, removing it from the perpetrators and the families of the victims,

left side by side mean noises. 2 brothers and a cousin were killed during the genocide. these quin knobby but they were brutally killed hacked here and here in the head in the throat. all parts of the body, shred it by them. oh my god brothers, i love the hands that would have supported me down of the man who killed them. super am at the bottle was tried and one of rhonda supposed genocide tribunal and spent 12 years in prison on his release as 2 ways for forgiveness and she accepted . now the regularly participating group activities together with other form of potatoes and victims. it's all part of a government program to create unity among brandons and re establish trust following the genocide that split communities would. would that work for sion tied to could see, forgive her attackers and killers of her baby what, what do we have

a good country and that has brought us together and we loved each other. but it does not rule out the possibility that there could still be remnants of genocide ideology in some people's hearts you can't see and people's heart, it's an older woman. her son was killed during the genocide would now be a grown like other kids and finish up some kind of hopes that generation would be able to put the genocide and the divisions of the past behind them. or at some say, the desire to overcome division has come at a cost. polk odami has played a leading role in run to since 1994, becoming president in 2000. and there are no signs. he intends to go a position leader of x, y and go b ray is one of click on this fits this, chris exceeded these morale. let us set down with her into gully. and aust, how fall has one to come since the genocide with president to come me?

he, i say always the he was the deadline to pay this on to the right to mention that it is, it was, he was the mind. that's the one that needed to of the genocide by to today after say to use i think that's we need the new fresh bromwoods in order than the session . so but afraid nothing of it, but to you there is some activities in to this and a new beer didn't give me to daddy. you kind of see that to me. they was so much of a man to meet you getting bought into hot. we need to, to be, to also they have to for one day. so that's, that's why i say it's a few years because what we actually, that, that'll get, didn't get close to the ocean, is the sources. we need to have a longer way to go. so what is needed in order to achieve that reconciliation? what's needed is to, to can nice to autumn one eyes or is 30 i said one does as one conditions. because on to 2 days or, or this, not that that is $35.00. our country divides us onto today before the genocide that

gets it to cease. and during the genocide in the after the genocide that are so climate guessing money to come into the it's a simple just those of victims until today's nobody to talk about it. but they have a lot of tapes and they know that is they need to whom to express. they find open nitty proper credit. we've talked to that to, we've had to 6 and you've been a long time critic of president for cut on the end of government. you also challenge the official narrative as it just mentioned, of the genocide. what happened before and during the genocide. so could you, if plane of its size, what do you mean by that? what kind of atrocities or crimes against humanity has been committed when they total the kind of get some money. they talk about the number of citizens where the kids, when they was in the roof and just comp inside the land. when did they was in day homes, and then they home sort of destroyed into and kids summer. so just and most of them committed to those crimes. and if i say to they say you got

a full rise policy middle on that, that isn't the choose that is it over the auditability yet it's for wanda. if we need to really to bid and nation to have is to send a bit of different elements with compet have edited. so spend a bit of development if we are not the north trust a month, as i said, one downs. because we need before to be one in nations. why? where you bought from the next election to? because i was going down by one the quotes, even if the after can, the court has cleared the my name, but atlanta government refused to, to coordinate this, the decision of the one that i quotes and a they bundle mid to best fits into an extra do you think that is out of fee of because you're too dangerous for the government during the party. oh, to say that to the candidates because the company is popular among the london and the i see if you he's so popular. why do you order for that to be new competition

only for someone that has done to a lot or understand why do to susie me to participate in the edison. but the sort of showing the answer is that they know if i'm going to in the competition for london, dwanda submitted new flesh a blog. and they, they know that they can easily with extra and this is why they bundle him in to best. thank you. so much you have come london. so make of samuel issue with parents were killed in the genocide. he was 2 years old at the time and saved by his many. he's recently co produced a documentary where he's sold to understand what led to the mass murder. i'll be talking to simulation with off to this except off his food, which is called retaining history. the colonial roots of the genocide in rwanda. as the this is around a 1000 hillsborough dies the country i was born in 30 years

ago when it was 2 years old. the genocide was committed here. my parents and the big spots of my family, what killed i'm on a journey to find out about the roots of the 1994 genocide against the to see and rhonda. my name is some way to ship. i'm a see to make all of my parents killed. i knew it killed by the militia, but i didn't know why. and as a kid, i just thought he was wor between us 131450 that's. that's we asking questions. somebody from the ends reading books. and yeah, that's what, that's how i start understanding ok. good children because of their customers are too close to to see if we speak to some language share to some culture. so i'm confident, how do we become, what was the identity before jump those individuals, jim scrutinizing randa at the end of the match,

essentially. what divided us to talking to a sales, or was it the to see twice, already existed before community it is around one percent of london's called themselves, twice the colonizers defend them as picking these natives who lived here before the who to and to it's just going to court a proof of do it to, to, to, to a phone, to speak to you in the service ship doing a this looks like 1 o'clock because it isn't a sunday so, so high of the meaning of, for to, to, to, to are infrequently or rhonda this is debated among historians to visit when they apply that to me or to to cisco s good on predictor of a more. so when do you have

a tablet exemption? no heater, one simply should community bicycle switch. you can use a shock 15 percentage frequency also around directly to the way. uh so the max is open at 130 to 1215. so if you need to do is also going to swamped abc isn't too good to, to see that what it is going to press the ideal to jump damage. the commission was introduced to run that at the end of the next century by european researches. they concluded that the tooth c, quite a so called the negro hom bites who had integrated from the north and diminutive, the supposedly indigenous which was for hundreds of years. the, as i was a recession for this phone, i came across the recent german run and started. do we feel that no way around 900 human scholars kept in germany. there was tongue from rhonda in 19 or 7 and 19 or 8

. most of them are appropriate to by natural prodigies, to named youngest. you kind of ski for over a 100 years. nobody in london knew about the existence of these 2 months because the united administrative beans used for classifying a good one. that's just to prove that there is a community in need one in the cruise, the cruise is being the genocide, but the trip to the games fit to it. so i'm running a little bit about how my identity force destroyed how these divisions came about. i don't a float recorded history decent the jump on the drum. and so my next step now would be to go to this see for myself, the

ability of the significance place for many reasons. first of all, the so called co conference in which africa was divided like a piece of cake and given to put on your powers, took place here in berlin, in 1884, in 1885 parisha theories to divide the humanity of 2 races were very popular, also at the museum for his daughter, director of the after kind ocean yet departments felix for lucian, instructed the colonial researches to appropriate the mode. the 9000 human remains from germany put on his most east coast, but also for skeletons. whoever did that opened the graves, took out the scouts. normally when you just go participation studies measuring a typo, g this goes and the rest of the body, but it's not important because you quickbook detect races when he started and run to run it pointing the finger. i think someone's saying i'm going to 1st was

introduce a rush. i'm curious on fostering picture think that somehow in germany it can be held responsible in some type of form of the truth. i do on a 94 in the way. yes. because they brought this, this division between 2 to and to question is another one. is it the must that off to this division, which the trim and brought to run to? was it a must that 100 just later genocide happened. the next step of my journey is marriage and the 1916 dimensions to quote, a new quote for a friend from the germans. during world war one, front us can was seen, got give a 1000 run and troops to the germans to fight that guess they've been just. but the builders wonder will have to cut off or under, under demanded affiliate of nations, systematically dig. so the division of a to, to central, to,

according to the commission, the german just have to go to run the list. so can you to me, to run that so, so that was the initial to be fixed from colonial powers. was actually, this is to magic dictation. teach this is a george and some if i people, induction will cause a to district to begin the direction different. and i am joined institute here by their funding. so make, has some you issue with who we just sold in that film of the day. it's really good to be talking to. you're welcome to date of me is africa. sam? i was particularly struck in fact, surprised to the, during the documentary, that actually the what, who to into, to identity was rooted into saw. that was cost. right? so this was not sort of an ethnic difference between these 2 peoples. it was haves

and have nots. but as you then take us through this documentary, we learned that the colonizers actually pushed the notion that said that there was a difference. yeah, absolutely, that's right. and it's, it's one of the biggest, i think, misconceptions i think in history where you with this profile creation of an identity that is not there before in which i read. because of course, as a new one, the inbound in some of the original countries. and yeah, in many of the general defense, we to go to the, to the source of that's of, when did this difference come from? yeah, so we, so you traveling across rwanda coming to your number of countries here as well. you missed a lot of people. you spoke to a lot of people, a lot of research went into this by the end of the project. what was the one thing you would have said stuck with you? so we'd have to tell because a lots today just in this, in this process. but i think one of the biggest thing that stuck with me is there

is look know that's the was a creation of music, isn't alonda and other cars. and that there was any casual, actually occurred on your intention to occur in your project to actually push a different system from the creating differences, but also to politically push differences and to make these people seem to have been different. and that was for me there and they said that the biggest thing that there was look in these papers looked like just the actual project on the stage was, are we political? we are divided people. yes, we race track striking to discover that. yeah, because we have people in the arguments about colonialism. you hear people making the points and you highlight this as well. that, oh, but colonialism wasn't all that bad. it brought civilization. there it's, it's a very stupid the argument because that clinician position was ordered by the stocks today with all that's introduced to actually dealing with the consequences of that is lucky to only the genocide in rwanda even today and 2024 some dealing

with that's we come to borders, identities, destruction of casual structures. duties of that is something that still has short consequences on the african continents to that. so i don't, i don't see any positive outcome from cremation, or somebody visual was there before, you know, send your parents were both killed. you are 2 years old and that time, a lot of your family members would to, the city is on. right. i'm just wondering what more you feel like you lost me, but also way you are at, in the sort of like the healing process. what would you say that today? city is on as a parent yourself that when you're at peace with what happened that youth way, are you in, in this whole like process often having to confront what happened and then also having to move on. if it's a, it's a very interesting thing because people from

a generation where there was a young team to genocide right now and today, that's one of those that was just starting to confront the history. i mean, there's a generation of people who lived. it's an over the time, had it had the time to we under a move on from me or dealing with it. and for us, i think starting now that's what adults that we were having to do off of our own that we start to emotionally. now do it or of this. so i'll say, i don't know it and we try to move on of course, and to be positive and the country is moving on. but on the personal and emotional level, if something that is pure, it'd be a big thing to explore and to do with it on a daily basis. so i think it's an ongoing gap or journey with the human. yeah. yeah . well, thank you for taking us on that journey with you. i thought the film was a standard, a standard projects and we just learned so much about what happened and you'll kind of free and how it is still a real present reality today. so thank you. so much for coming into that you're very much and that is it

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