but clearly interest in on december 19th 1989. shortly after the fall of the chancellor addresses the people of east germany. the middle east tense. clamors for german unity journalist limbo or cause at the scene. 30 years later he looks back on the time tristen. starts december 19th d.w. . these young people in rwanda are lined up outside a stadium in the capital kigali but they're not here to see a football match or a music concert. they're here to remember the victims of the 1994 genocide when hutu extremists slaughtered hundreds of thousands of tutsis and other minority

groups. of this. these 2 little it was the worst day of my life. our neighbors came to our home and murdered my family then squeezed. up to 1000000 people were killed over the course of just 100 days. most of this crowd weren't even born to they're here today to audition for a t.v. talent show. on show. it will be one of months since. the show is called east africa's gone talent. it's similar to programs that are broadcast in europe and the

us. in the 3rd simon is in charge of the auditions like many others here simon lost family members in the genocide in rwanda as young people know the history of the massacre but on days like this they try to forget about it for a while still you know. we're moving on we're moving along we don't want to be held by what's happened in the past we want to move on we want to look for the future and it doesn't but the odds you all know we are in the period of $100.00 days of calm the ritual and just this thing is part of it so we remember we are night and then wouldn't you so we have a new law serves and this is part of the new york about what what one of my one people are called up to audition. for. the next one was a has come here with a friend who is an aspiring singer. for nasa herself

is too shy to sign up for the show she's a survivor of the genocide. that wiped out. new via email and i think this show is great there aren't many jobs for young people in rwanda but they all want to blacken make their dreams come true well this might give them a chance. that he could wind up what we would have won by need. for nasa and simon 1st met at a support group for genocide survivors. he's become a surrogate father to her. the effects of the genocide are reflected even today in various aspects of rwandan culture the a on. a performing arts group called rehearses a play 50. as in part with one s.

a story. all i have left is this blood stained. witnessed cruelty the role of the knesset as played by my own. internet as parents died in the genocide when she was just an infant i don't 'd know much about you. what did you look like. you don't have ringback your eyes. your finger is. perhaps even your smile. she's such a confused young fragile child she represents a lot of these days we have a lot of questions and that's basically what i'm doing in this scene with orson she's asking her mom about her history did you know it's it's difficult because her mom is new to the. sound of. a singer

named rosetta plays vanessa's mother as the woman lay dying she asked a young girl to take the baby to safety mother. for tuesday for. did you know marie was a would to. go out. was. this is the real vanessa she was rescued by grace or. a hutu who was 13 years old at the time grace put her life at risk for saving the life of a tutsi. grace and vanessa still live together today along with grace's biological children. after the genocide life was hard for me because there were still tensions between the ethnic groups and equal. we tried to get along with each other but it wasn't

easy john. people used to call me insulting names all the time on how good david cooley influenced. one of those names was cockroach a derogatory term the hutus often used to describe to its use. the honey could be taken away if only one with things are different today at school the kids are taught that we're all citizens of rwanda one who claims he did and that there were no differences between us fit to begin a kind of calling and of course. the name of the play is generation $25.00 it tells the story of a nessa and several others who were born in the year after the genocide took place . but that's not it. that. you have a lot of questions and we're hungry for the truth we want to know what's up but

it's so hard to really get these questions obviously if you didn't get behind the group's founder and artistic director hope says that genocide as a recurring theme and rwandan society. to be honest there are some questions regarding genocide that just have no answer. because it's a unique evil it's a unique ideology that is written well and sometimes it just blows your mind that a human being just wakes up one morning and a human being in that past and walks out of them and the beast in them is in thrall . and how do we booked him for that beast so i'm just make wishing that this young generation can detect this beast and suppressed. the genocide came to an end in july 994. when

a rebel group the rwandan patriotic front overthrew the government the r.p.s. has led the country since then and has turned for wanda into a model african state economic growth is strong the streets are clean and corruption levels are low. but the r.p.s. government has also imposed strict limits on political rights and civil liberties because the authorities claim that the country is still threatened by hutu militias . we are now on our way to eastern congo after r.p. of troops put a stop to the massacres hundreds of thousands of hutus fled to the forests near the border because they feared reprisal attacks by rwanda's tutsi led government. there are still occasional outbreaks of violence in the region. the united

nations is trying to stabilize the situation in eastern congo part of that effort involves offering sanctuary to rebels who agree to stop fighting. those who want to surrender simply call a hotline marrows a talks to a rebel who wants to turn himself in. so you have no weapons right where you are right now. try to get to tongo we can perhaps pick you up that. way or the one on ones that. many fighters still fear that if they return to rwanda the authorities will punish them. the 5 year old rwandan fighter has nothing to be afraid of he had nothing to do with the killings back then and we try to explain that to them. even men who are now 30 were children during the

genocide but the militia leaders are playing on the fears of those who fight for them $65.00 days and it's. militia for most of. the 1st stop for those fighters who managed to escape is a un reception camp. in sa by monisha was a member of the rwandan militia group until he found out about the un resettlement program. he's given a thorough medical examination perhaps the 1st one he's ever had. a man and knows little about rwanda he was born in congo his parents fled there after the genocide. it was

a long trip but i'm safe now and i hope the un will continue to help me my future will be different now. he says his parents would never consider going back to probe wanda. talks to students about the various militia groups that are now operating in eastern congo. he asks the audience what is the primary function of these soldiers. the other students have a laugh at that remark. he did. the rosa explains that the militia group. whether they are from rwanda or congo are terrorizing the civilian population the f t l r is especially notorious in the region. this one does that give even. these rebels

are taking advantage of the local residents feel a loss you see is all but if the soldiers need meet they steal a coat from someone. if they want a woman or a young girl. they take one from the very villages they say they are protecting says oh. you don't believe is that the rebels recruit local boys and teach them how to use weapons. well those boys don't go to school either. we try to convince the locals not to support the rebel groups because it will bring nothing but trouble. after in something and another ex rebel how the man i'm always finish their meal they'll be transported to rwanda as part of the government's reintegration effort.

i'm really happy right now if i had wings i would fly. after. you know i'm going back to my home and i got away from the rebels and i'm glad i did i say. something mano was born in rwanda in 1994 the year of the genocide so he's part of generation $25.00 his parents fled to the congo and took their infant son with them. obviously these 2 young men had nothing to do with the massacre. the sons are paying a price for crimes committed by their parents john. aeration. as they cross the border it seems like they're in a different world but rwandan society is still dealing with the effects of the genocide.

this former catholic church in the village of in toronto now serves as a memorial to the 5000 people who were killed here in just one day. that. there remains of genocide victims are still being found in rwanda once the bodies have been identified relatives can make a funeral arrangements. this helps to give the families

a sense of closure. 'd a national memorial service is held every year president paul kagame a spoke at the $21000.00 of vent and issued a stern warning this will seem to have seen enough of the myths. i would. want to mess with us where you will hear from outside. i want to sit. with miss up with them big time big to thank the speech was well received by could gum

a supporters his threat against the wonders enemies was almost certainly directed against the congo based f t l r militia thanks. here the theater group continues they were hurt. this part of the play deals with a young man whose father took part in the genocide how does he cope with the terrible legacy of those crimes there's no more. she says and. most. but that she says she's seen most. sometimes the truth hurts sometimes the truth gets us somewhere but it's the same thing that if you are dragging the wound and for they want to hear you have to be true right you can go tougher i beat for half half killing me so

clinging to this room and sometimes it's been for 2 needs to haiti we are all trying to rebuild a new image that is an image of unity and reconciliation hard is hard as it may be i mean people still have people still have you know everything is still sensitive but only one step at a time and yet people do so share their stories but not we don't come upstate and victim and perpetrator was killed. but. meanwhile the 2 former rebels arrive at a reintegration camp in rwanda. the they'll take part in an extensive government run training program that aims to prepare them for civilian life. that you know though i've been here less than an hour and i like it already this is a good place as what is. called

a mano recognizes a few of his former brothers in arms. in recent years tens of thousands of former rebels have voluntarily returned to rwanda. but 1st some are skeptical about the free integration program but in any case they're glad that they don't have to fight anymore. the next morning there's a special assembly. they're singing a song that praises the rwandan state its main themes are peace unity and reconciliation there are no longer any official distinctions between hutus and tutsis. there. afterward a psychologist talks about how to deal with trauma he says it can help to talk

openly about these experiences most of these men have never done that. there is no statute of limitations on crimes committed during the genocide those found to have taken part can still be prosecuted. no one knows why and sell them honest parents stayed in congo he doesn't know where he's going to live after he leaves the reintegration camp perhaps with relatives. but how the money will soon meet members of his family. and the manager of the facility was one of the soldiers who helped to end the genocide. many of his relatives were killed in the massacres but now he believes that it's essential to bring hutus and tutsis together. the. talking about

it sees doesn't invite what but to hear we do talk about it. their way of. teaching these people to go day is that the or broad we have already traveled on munich and it was a question that but the rebel leaders in eastern congo continue to preach the ideology of genocide more. than just him batumi told us that they had killed people which is and that's why they had to leave for a wonder one article but that's all i know is it they didn't like to talk about it . to be cheap 20 as they passed to get a suit. they were being caught by their ideology and by war by climate but everything by talking it helps them.

just to heal their own a new york office about life. the next day camp officials give hubby mana some money and permission to visit his family for 3 days it's an important part of the reintegration process but it will. have to. be mana hasn't seen his mother for 10 years she returned to rwanda when he was a teenager he stayed with the rebels. i was already i'm so happy that my child has come back to me there was a. very. hollow the neighbors are glad to see him too some of them are hutus others are tootsies they tell him that it's hard to make

a living out here in the countryside and. oh. 'd i see that. when we were in the congo we always hoped that we'd find gold but we never did. i wonder what sort of work i can find here. what my future will be like. vanessa asks herself the same questions she'd like to start her own business someday but right now she doesn't have the money to continue her education. here she and her neighbors are taking part in the government's compulsory cleanup program which takes place once a month it's called gunda which translates as coming together in common purpose. the perpetrators and victims of genocide work side by side but for vanessa it's

still difficult to discuss the events at that time in her life the girl who's going to be who i always think that someone else has to speak for now if it was who i can't express but i really feel. if i could i'd have a better life i'd probably be able to find a job now it was but i just can't get the way it's done so i always have to depend on others to help me but. we've come to the annual ceremony that commemorates the victims of the genocide it's called. which means to remember. director hope a zeta and her theatre group are holding a final rehearsal before their performance where. the production manager is simon a young woman who earlier organized the auditions for the t.v. show.

the premiere of the play generation 25 will take place at the genocide memorial and golly 250000 victims are buried here. this is a place that you want is that we have the space with you here for this business press is a very special space it does us but that does for me i listening to how you would together. it's more like that yeah. more than a 1000 people come to see the. most of them are actually part of generation 25. percent of us and extended to step aside to some like the nasa may have experienced the horrors of the genocide firsthand others like the ex rebels may feel guilty about the crimes committed by their parents generation. that.

was not sure about it but since that's what's what's left. but this play is just part of a long and difficult process of reconciliation. the formants is a big success not least because the cast addressed complex and painful issues that still dominate rwandan society 6. never again is a really important slogan that says something kept because their stories are just so terrifying they're terrifying and that's something that i wish right that will

never experience never again read to us ambassador sends congratulations that was so wonderful at the right to review the cost cutting 8. that is a 2nd if it was silly to answer was yes it was to say within 50 . we've come to simon i.o.m. his home where he and his family are hosting a dinner for a few friends. monday guest is for nessa she enjoys meeting other members of the survivors group. simon met his future wife at a meeting of a similar support organisation these groups have been set up across the country and vanessa says they do a lot of good. or not we'll all and glad that i found this group. i like being around these people who sound. the same on to me simon is like

a father or brother to us he's older than we are i'm always happy to see him that we meet people from different generations and have a meal i really enjoy it just. some of simon's relatives are also here along with a few members of his extended family of genocide survivors he says it's important for them to meet regularly and provide support for each other. we all have different stories or have different experiences and it's it's a vast go pick a team based human really is the physical. love and we both use cards as well and of how we came before so maybe they should have to dinner simon's baby daughter your arena is formally introduced to the guests this ceremony is a tradition in many of obama's and families because it helps to promote

a sense of community with. a. good 25 years ago such traditions were very nearly destroyed and for wanda. you know that for many the psychological trauma of the genocide is still very real those who lived through it like the nesa are learning to cope but it's a long and complex process. and the message hopes to have children of her own one day. when she was the same age as rena she had a helpless next to her dying mother it but she survived. the.

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