some many different suppliers. some are. obviously trying. to come straight. the russian internet church today starts june 18th 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 pedals 2 little it was the worst day of my life i our neighbors came to our home and murdered my family and squeezed. up to 1000000 people were killed over the course of just 100 days. most of this crowd weren't even born. they're here today to audition for a t.v. talent show. on show. it will be one of the months since. 7 the show is called east africa's gone talent. it's similar to programs that are broadcast in europe and the

us. simon is in charge of the auditions like many others here simon lost family members in the genocide because one does 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 just. 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 days of calm the ritual and just this thing is part of it so we remember we are night and then we didn't you so we have a new ourselves and this is part of the new york that 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. but that. doing by 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 me as a. national 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 law. a performing arts group called rehearses a play that deals. in part with bonuses story. all i have left is this bloodstained

. witnessed cruelty the role of n.s.a. as played by my almost sang internet as parents died in the genocide when she was just an infant i don't know much about. what did you look like. you don't have your eyes. your finger is. perhaps even your smile. she's such a confused young fragile child she represents a lot of the youth 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 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. for tuesday evening. did you know marie was a had to. * was told. this is the real vanessa she was rescued by grace. 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 and us. after the genocide life was hard for me because there were still tensions between the ethnic groups. who. 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 its use. the honey could be taken one away have only one with things are different today at school the kids are taught that we're all citizens of rwanda one could be a seed and that there were no differences between us fit to gain a kind of tolling at a point that. 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 after the genocide took place. but that's not. that. we 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 out you could indicate. 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 if a human being just wakes up one morning and a human being in that class and walks out of them and the beast in them is in thrall. and how do we pay him for that beast so i'm just like 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 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 mysie. where the one on ones out. many fighters still fear that if they return to rwanda the authorities will punish them. this 25 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 which children during the

genocide but the militia leaders are playing on the fears of those who fight for them thank you for this and it's. the 1st stop for those fighters who managed to escape is a un reception camp. inside . was a member of the rwandan militia group until he found out about the un resettlement program and. he's given a thorough medical examination perhaps the 1st one he's ever had. in. his happy 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 is at the visa these rebels are

taking advantage of the local residents feel it would be awesome. if the soldiers need meet they steal a coat from someone. if they want a woman or a young girl if. 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. 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 to. narration. 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 entire house serves as a memorial to the 5000 people who were killed here in just one day. that. the remains of genocide victims are still being found in 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 vent and issued a stern warning this will seem to have not seen enough of the myths. i want to miss with this where the death toll will from outside. i want to sit. with miss up with them big time big to thank. the speech was well received by could come

a supporters his threat against rwanda's enemies was almost certainly directed against the congo based f t l r militia thank you. here the theater group continues their herschel 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. most. but that she says she's seen most. sometimes the truth cuts sometimes the truth sticks out somewhere but it's this im thing that if you rub in the wound and for they want to hear you have to be true right you can no tough drive beat or have half kidding me so claiming to be

stewart sometimes is paying for back to 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 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 you don't come upstate and think to put the tchaikovsky. 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 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 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. 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. talking about

who it is and tutsis doesn't invite you what but to here we do talk about it. as. a way of. teaching these people to go they do the or or do we have already travelled on unit auspicious yes. but the rebel leaders in eastern congo continue to preach the ideology of genocide more. or interfere in that you may told us that they had killed people 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 give it 20 as they pass to get us. there we're being caught by the ideology and by war by climate but everything by talking it helps them. just to heal their own and look

office about life. the next day camp officials give hubby manas some money and permission to visit his family for 3 days it's an important part of the reintegration process but it will. have. hubby mana hasn't seen his mother for 10 years she returned to rwanda when he was a teenager he stayed with the rebels. i'm so happy that my child has come back to me through and yet. we've. heard all the neighbors are glad to see him too some of them are hutus others are

too it seems they tell him that it's hard to make a living out here in the countryside and. i sit on the edge of a teacher had a child when we were in the congo we always hoped that we'd find gold but we never did well in the little i threw in the call i wonder what sort of work i can find here when they are what my future will be like little with no name. 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 one person it's

still difficult to discuss the events of that time in her life she gunned. quote i always think that someone else has to speak fully now if it was me i can't express but i really feel that if i could i'd have a better life and i'd probably be able to find a job now what it was but i just can't get the words on 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 cock which means to remember. the director hope a zeta and her theater 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 a generation 25 will take place at the genocide memorial in could only 250000 victims are buried here that this is a place that calls for what do i did to show this is a special place that speaks to us so you if you're going to kill fears and about it does it does it all and it's not going to be you want is connect with the space but you're here for this business press is a very special space you do this but that does you are you here for me i listen. now you i would to go back. it's more like that yeah well yes more than a 1000 people come to see the play most of them are actually part of generation 25 . it's only 6 and extend it to subside to some like vanessa 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. followed it but said. what what if. 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. right. now never again is a really important skill given that she should be kept because the 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 actually doing that cost cutting you. know that's a sentiment that was yes it was yes it was a simple oh. we've come to simon iowa miss home where he and his family are hosting a dinner for a few. friends. monday guest is been s.-a chan joyce 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 he sounds. the same on to me simon is like a father or brother to us he's older than we i'm always happy to see him that we meet people from different generations and have a meal i really enjoyed. 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 one have different experiences of dave and it's it's a vast go pick a team based human loneliness the physical. love and we try to use cards as well and of how we can before say but

after dinner silence 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 of the. 25 years ago such traditions were very nearly destroyed and are wanda that. 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. the 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. 6

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