the people of east germany. the mideast tense. clamors for german unity. journalist peter allen bored to see. 30 years later looks back. to. stars 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 their discrete. up to 1000000 people were killed over the course of just 100 days. most of this crowd weren't even born there they're here today to audition for a t.v. talent show. on show. it was one of the months since. the show is called east africa's got talent it's similar to programs that are broadcast in europe and the u.s. . in the 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 let's just say. that we're moving on we're moving along we don't not be held by what's up 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 days of the ritual and just this thing is part of it so we remember we are night and then didn't you so we have a new ourselves and this is part of the new york that about what what what what one of my one people are called up to audition. and this 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 what that. movie made and i

think this show is great there aren't many jobs for young people in rwanda but they all want to black can make their dreams come true well this might give them a chance. and you 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 that deals in part with bonus a story. although i have left this blood stained. whip. nest cruelty the role of

a national 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. what did you look like. did i have ringback your eyes. if ing this. caps even your smile. she's such a confused and beyond fragile child she represents a lot of the youth nowadays 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 the young girl to take the baby to safety mum. for tuesday evening.

did you know marie was a would to. us. 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. in the us. after the genocide life was hard for me because there were still tensions between the ethnic groups and. we tried to get along with each other but it wasn't easy. 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 tease. the heinie could take one away have only one with things are different today at school the kids are taught that we're all citizens of rwanda the one who place it and that there were no differences between us fit to begin a kind of one bucket calling and on. the name of the play is generation $25.00 it tells the story of a nasa and several others who were born in the year that the genocide took place. but that's not headed. up. 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 couldn't get height the group's founder and artistic director hope says that genocide is

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 the human being in that class and walks out of there and the beast in them is in thrall. and how do we booked in for that beast so i'm just in. wishing that this young generation can detect to this beast and suppressed it. 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 our hotline. talks to a rebel who wants to turn himself in. saying you have no weapons right where you are right now. try to get to tongo we can perhaps pick you up there. with missy. where the one on ones that. many fighters still fear that if they return to rwanda the authorities will punish them. it's 25 year old rwandan fighter has nothing to be afraid of he had nothing to do with the killings back then we try to explain that to them. even men who are now 30 which children during the genocide but the militia leaders are playing on the fears of those who fight for them i thank you for this and it's. the

1st stop for those fighters who managed to escape is a un reception camp. in sa by monish 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. in saudi 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 keep. the roza 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 it. seems obvious the soldiers need meat they steal a goat from someone. if they want

a woman or a young girl. they take one from the very villages they say they are protecting says all. 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 hubby 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. i'm going back to my home and i got away from the rebels and i'm glad i did i say.

have a 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 the price for crimes committed by their parents john. narration . as they cross the border it seems like they're in a different world but pro wanton society is still dealing with the effects of the genocide.

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

national memorial service is held every year president paul kagame a spoke at the $21000.00 of event and issued a stern warning this will seem to have a look see in enough of the minutes. want to miss with this where the death toll will from outside. i want to sit. with miss stuck with them big time big to. the speech was well received by could gum a supporters his threat against rwanda's enemies was almost certainly directed against the congo based f t l r moshe thanks. here

the theatre group continues their rehearsal 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. open. she's in the. most. but that she's just most. sometimes the truth that sometimes the truth sticks out somewhere but it's the same thing that if you're driving a wound and for they want to hear you have to be true right you can no tough drive beat or have tough cleaning so claiming to be stewart sometimes is being formed by 2 needs to heal we are all trying to rebuild

a new image that is and an image of unity and a consolation prize hard as it may be i mean people still have people still have you know everything's still sensitive but any one step at a time and yet people do so share their stories but it's not you don't come upstate and victims and perpetrators keep. working. on meanwhile the 2 former rebels arrive at a reintegration camp in rwanda. they'll take part in an extensive government run training program that aims to prepare them for. or civilian life so. that you know no i've been here less than an hour and i like it already this is a good place as well as. how the mana 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 reintegration 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 seldom 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. 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 who it is and tutsis doesn't invite what but to hear we do talk about it. their way of. teaching these people to go they do that or broad

we have already traveled it up on munich and it isn't there but the rebel leaders in eastern congo continue to preach the ideology of genocide more. or interests him back to may told us that they had killed people which is already and that's why they had to leave for a wonder one arch there that's all i know is it they didn't like to talk about it. and we keep 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 if they want a new york office about life. the next day camp officials give hubby man a 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.

i've wondered. 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 when they are 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 of that time in her life she's going to lose ground. who quote i always think that someone else has to speak for now if it was

me i can't express but i really feel. if i could i'd have a better life and i'd probably be able to find a job now it was but i just can't get the words on so i always have to depend on others to help me. so. we've come to the annual ceremony that commemorates the victims of the genocide it's called. which means to remember. the director hope a zeta and her theater group are holding a final rehearsal before their performance. 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 in

could only 250000 victims are buried here that this is a place that forceful i want to buy detention this is a special place that speaks to us so you if you're going to look so fierce and branded as a round it's not going to be if you want it's clicked with this space but you're here for this business press is a very special space heaters i suppose that does you are you here for me i use. now you i would together. it's more like that yeah well yes there are more than a 1000 people come to see the play and most of them are actually part of generation 25. it's only 6 and extended to step aside to some like the nasa may have experienced the horrors of the genocide firsthand others like the x. rebels may feel guilty about the crimes committed by their parents' generation.

that. was not sure about it but said. what's what. 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 skill given that she should be kept because their stories are just so terrified they're terrifying and that's something that i wish right that will never experience ever again because the u.s.

ambassador sends congratulations that was so wonderful at the right story you just cut it. that's a 2nd if it was silly yes it was yes it was a heavy davis and i think. we've come to simon ioannis home where he and his family are hosting a dinner for. you friends. monday guest is been esa 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. will and glad that i found this group. i like being around these people who sound. the same on to 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 love different story is going to have different experiences and that if. it's a vast gopi taking place humanely is the natural way is love and this. is part. of how we came before i will say but after dinner simon's baby daughter your arena is formally introduced to the guests this ceremony is a tradition in many vaughn's and families because it helps to promote

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

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