seasonal underselling. it's modern day heroes an. inspirational people who take all the challenges of the world with their you. as the person who would face off from mariel might you look at those 2 problems and make them one solution to the new season of sounders family. starts june 13th 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. but this. these people to

a little bit was the worst day of my life. our neighbors came to our home and murdered my family that is. 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 sure. it will be one of those good months since. the show is called east africa's gone talent it's similar to programs that. 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 just. we're moving on we're moving along we don't want to 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 calm the ritual and just this thing is part of it so we remember we are night and then didn't you so we had a new ourselves and this is part of the new york 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. but that. 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 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. all i have left is this bloodstained.

you witnessed cruelty the role of a knesset as played by my own. internet has parents died in the genocide when she was just an infant i don't know much about. what did you look like. did i have ringback your eyes. your finger is. perhaps even your smile. she said. confused young 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. 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. every tuesday for. did you know marie was a would too. was. this is the real vanessa she was rescued by grace morrow 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. who. we tried to get along with each other but. 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. in honey could be taken away have only one with things are different today at school the kids are taught that we're all citizens of rwanda one quit being sued 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. how. you have a lot of questions and were hungry for the truth you want to know what's up but

it's so hard to really get to these questions i'm going to get in to get behind the group's founder and artistic director hope says that genocide is a recurring theme in 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 class 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 wrong. london 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 our p.f. 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 rosa talks to a rebel who wants to turn himself in and. say you have no weapons right where you are right now. try to get to tongo we can perhaps pick you up there. where the women ones out. many fighters still fear that if they return to rwanda the authorities will punish them. 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 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. in . 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 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 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. he asks the audience what is the primary function of these soldiers. the other students have a laugh at that remark. he rose and explains that the militia groups 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 even if. these rebels are taking advantage of the local residents. 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 see this 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. in joy i'm really happy right now if i had wings i would fly. anymore.

i'm going back to my home and i got away from the rebels and i'm glad i did i say. having 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' generation. as they crossed 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 in the village of entire house 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 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 seen enough of the mess. i would. want to miss with this well if he will from outside. i want to sit. with miss up with them big time big to thank the speech was well received by could damage supporters his threat

against pro wonders enemies was almost certainly directed against the congo based f t l r militia thank. here the theater group continues there hershel 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 in the. most. but that she says she's seen most. sometimes the truth cuts sometimes the truth sticks out somewhere but it's the same thing that if you're driving the wound and for they want to hear you have to be true right you can no tough crowd beat will have half cream so claiming to be

so and sometimes is being formed by 2 leads to haiti we are all trying to rebuild a new image that is and image of unity and reconciliation hard as hard as it may be i mean people still have people still have you know everything is still sensitive but any one step at a time and yet people do so share their stories but not we don't come upstate and victims and perpetrators kill. meanwhile the 2 former rebels are arrive at a reintegration camp in rwanda. they'll take part in an extensive government run training program that aims to prepare. them for civilian markets. have been oh 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 agree 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. there 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 on as parents stayed in congo he doesn't know where he's going to live after he leaves the reintegration camp perhaps with relatives. but 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 hutus and tutsis 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 it up on new osce mission. but the rebel leaders in eastern congo continue to preach the ideology of genocide more. or interest him that you may told us that they had killed people which is it and that's why they had to leave for a wonder one arch to that's all i know is it they didn't like to talk about it. and we keep 20 as they pass to get us to. get we're being caught by their ideology and by war by climate but everything by talking it helps them. just heal their own and the local

1st about life. the next day camp officials give humpy 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 that i'm so happy that my child has come back to me. through. all of the neighbors are glad to see him too some of them are hutus others aren't too it seems they tell him that it's hard to make

a living out here in the countryside and. i see it on the pitch when we were in the congo we always hoped that we'd find gold but we never did. in the i wonder what sort of work i can find here when they are what my future will be like you know him. 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 for a little small grounded. i always think that someone else has to speak fully 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 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. which means to remember. 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 split a special place that speaks to us so you if you're going to excel fuse and branded as a role and it's not going to be if you want connect with the space with your help with this business press is a very special space heaters i suppose that those who are here for me are you listening to. i you i would together. it's more like that yeah well yes but more than a 1000 people come to see the play most of them are actually part of generation 25 . it's only 6 and extended to set 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'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. 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 it was right that will never experience never again read the us ambassador sends congratulations that was so wonderful at the white sure you have a cost cutting. that's easy they say to my face it was silly yes it was yes it was a heavy defeat a simple hello. we've come to simon iowa i miss home where he and his family are hosting a dinner for a few friends. monday guest is the nesa she enjoys meeting other members of the survivors group. simon met his future wife at a meeting of a similar support organization these groups have been set up across the country and for nasa says they do a lot of good. will and glad that i found this

group. i like being around these people 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 have different stories or have different experiences of dave and it's it's a vast blow p.k. to embrace the human really is the natural way is love and we both use caution as above ground of how we can before we say but after

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 of the. 25 years ago such traditions were very nearly destroyed and i wonder that that because 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 that's a 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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