5 minutes i received a message that i was an entrepreneur of welcome to rolanda, etc. that's it. after 2 weeks, my already had my 2 year visa plus and then this. and then i place a movie that it is a it's hard to imagine that less than 30 years ago, this country was the scene of one of the bloodiest genocides in history. but it has since rebounded and surprise the international community with its rapid transformation. president county has steered his country's development systematically, but at times with an iron fist modernization has involved demolishing various neighborhoods more than $7000.00 houses or to be seized. the 51 year old was stuff is one of those effected, you know, i used to park there and walk home. i give them for the study until 2 years ago he lived with his family in this poor neighborhood near the bus station. this is the

1st time he's been back. i knew that oh, i didn't where that corn is growing, that was my land a little with the new the water, the wall of my house, the winds up to their not have would tell most of us as an actor, he had a 50 square meter house built with 3 rooms, kitchen and a living room. all the toilets went outside like that building there. one day he was forced by the authorities to leave. as compensation though residents are given new housing upon request allocated by the state. deal with the objective and is a char i accepted the offer, halfling is the call. i told myself i'd get a better house and a nicer neighborhood. so right now, the state owner of this land, the book,

some of the blocks here, are being used to grow corn and move around. what 3 i knew will be things, you know, maybe one day there will be on the board is here and it was like over there by put them by the shop, by the one that has been carrying out expropriation since 2005. the state is legally obliged to pay compensation to the re settled families. uh huh. this is where i live when they call it a modern bill. it did say that it is oh, pull stuff up now lives 5 kilometers from his old house on one of the hills. if keep going, a big change. the buildings resembled modern social housing, with gardens and green spaces. around 300 reset of families from various districts of the cities live in the complex. the most of the apartment has 2 bedrooms and a living room,

plus the bathroom with the toilet. and the address we have running water in the shower. cindy old house, there was water, but no shower. oh yeah. we used to wash and a plastic tub local get and most of his living standards have greatly improved thanks to this government property with running water and a furnace to kitchen. but modern living comes at a cost. this living space is smaller than his previous one. and the children now have to share one room, 3 of them sleeping in one bunk bed, the main issues with the breakfast. yeah, so i had my on and this one has to help me even the brother had his room. that was big. oh, i'm more comfortable like this one. not like i'm

a no good and you smell improve privacy, but it's ok. that's close living quarters on for everyone, especially when the compensation doesn't make up for the loss. some residents are putting up a fight in the family's own neighborhood. this woman has decided to stay. we'll call her b. i please. but she wishes to remain anonymous, to avoid problems with these doherty's. she runs a mobile business and it took her 4 years to build her house, leaving is out of the question. yeah, i worked hard to build this house, but uh 2 of it was i'd rather stay here then move into one of the new apartment is i say, my house is bigger than what the government is offering me to be a tree. says the government's offer would make her worse off,

especially because this house earns her money. i don't know because we rent out a room here. and one here. no for all for the single bar to if just the office. i don't really have space for my family even going to then how would i may the school fees from my children? i can get by with the income from read or how do you have those are in the oklahoma . the government only provides homes with one or 2 bedrooms and a living room for the 4 digit. you heard that sadie too would be so cool. with the 2 spare rooms she can earn about 20 years extra each month. and although she's making ends meet right now, she knows the situation could soon change the mark painted on her house reminds her of that every day. the government marks crosses on the houses they plan to demolish dollars. you know how to do cool. i worry because i don't know what's coming to us and i put my faith in god and there goes

alone against the government. be at least barely stand a chance. but there is another neighborhood where residents have banded together to take legal action. our guide here is a local journalist towards us not to meet them. we're filming with a hidden camera. the westbrook is this. i don't think it's a good idea. so it is good. the government official has expressly forbidden it, and i might get into trouble for them in a mind. what's the down for bad? talking to the media about it. from like you told him, our plans we use empties? yes, they know i come here just because of the way it is. i tell them about our program every day. the programs are people. little this is how we learn a daily reports that our guide rides for the authorities, about our filming and research. we tried to contact the neighborhood residents,

but they all refused to talk to us out of fear of reprisals. the governments message seems to be getting through loud and clear throughout our filming were confronted with the harsh reality of a country that is safe, but highly monitored. police are everywhere in the city. as soon as we start filming without our guide, an officer approaches us the government seems overly concerned about its reputation as though it's trying to hide the misery that it can't eliminate. in 2016, around 56 percent of the population, we're still living below the poverty line. according to the world bank, it's 6 30 am. as residents start to go about their day and most of the children are

getting ready for school. a small head emerges from below the sidewalk. no one really seems to pay much attention, but this is the head of a child. 2 boys have found a place to shelter in the drain. every morning they leave as inconspicuously as possible the as we approach the children were confronted by a man and a woman the what's going on,

i don't know where you from from, from what you're doing and rolanda you worked for an organization why you were here yesterday evening they are very suspicious of us and tell us they'd already been watching us. you ask a lot of questions, were officers. you've spent a lot of time. i've seen you before. this is the 3rd time they tried to find out what we'd filmed and what we know street kids seemed to be a touchy subject. their numbers had apparently gone up recently, especially because of the corona virus pandemic. children left to fend for themselves on the streets are now a common sight at nightfall. they have to hide from the police. officers are everywhere, and they're supported by neighborhood militias. they target street kids and

petty criminals. anyone age, 18 or older, is sent to a rehabilitation center. one is located on route one does western border and make cable. one of central africa's biggest lakes. it's 200 kilometers from the capital on e one while island. after several weeks of those, she ation, we received a permit to film there from the ministry of interior. this remote island is about 20 kilometers from the coast. the crossing takes almost an hour but after a few minutes, the boat suddenly stops. the engine won't start again. do i have to go to skipper tells us that the engine has

been blocked by one of the plastic bags that end up in the leg from the democratic republic of congo. few fish live in the 2700 square kilometer like it's very polluted. and in the depths, there are high concentrations of methane and explosive gas that make swimming here dangerous. you can swim for long in the lake because of the gas. it's life threatening, but not that it's especially inviting today. after a fear storm, you won't want island appears in the distance. it's right on the border with the waters of neighboring democratic republic of congo. the area is under strict military control. the $140.00 hector island looks like a small paradise,

but it houses a government built rehabilitation center. that actually seems more like a prison camp. to want to the each morning begins with the rwanda national anthem. by 1600 young men from across the country who had been arrested by the police. these men between 18 and 39 years old, had been here for 3 weeks. and then at the 3rd regiment, you are responsible for the cleanliness of the whole facility to con. yeah,

because it's so cool, which it was simple. it was the those brought here are subject to a rehabilitation program lasting one year. most of them are drug addicts, some or former street children. the government has placed them here to cure them of their apparently deviant behavior. the d g is 24 years old and from gigante, he was arrested for smoking cannabis and sent to condo transit center. we have the phone lines this when they, when they came here, i didn't know they come didn't catch you and they, they brought, they both the buses, the buses, they brought the buses to, to fix us here. but i didn't know that we come here. there was no trial,

no lawyer, and no official verdict. his arrest like so many others was arbitrary, vo connecting also do then there are no judges because of your sentence to by a judge, you go to prison for more and this isn't the prison. it's a rehabilitation center and he says, thought a police officer to file for the beat us. you see this so what they can move freely here and that for installing that they can't leave when they want because they'd risk going back on the street. the other we screw up the new bed, so it's not a prison, but they're not allowed to come and go to possibly it's a no, it's a psycho social rehabilitation center. and that's what people see in the practices here. have been condemned many times by human rights watch for a year. they will take part in a prescribed program of exercises that are repeated daily. automotive, i don't know where you are here because you have disregarded the values of rwandan

society took with you what to do with your actions. you have violated the dignity of your family is and society. what would you have dealt with drugs and stuff are not conducive to living an honest life with integrity. i'll forget what it will cost you much change your bad behavior. what i give it to interesting. okay. good questions about what's going on with it. they have to memorize the values of the republic, which are drilled into them relentlessly by the teachers who don't go over a quick about our d. u. let's recall the value just overwhelmed and culture. and so you do what you need for me is that what we've done is actually nearby and that you need to respect them in order to change your behavior to answer a line. so doing that, i'm gonna put you on local. what do you believe are the values upper want to move over? i'm a true to the values that constitute a true one and i don't go and the good of our nations. yeah, go, well i guess what's your name done? yes. yeah. well then go on. honesty and integrity in that vector when gone,

gone as being an integrity, the mobo. now what else to see a how well it is? yes. yeah. well, the love of work, what are we shoes? they have those are funny was the kind of thing that kind of not the bucket them to to, to the assistant that i guess my task. so is it too hard for her to acquire those the, those you know how to use in even the or so as the other side towards this is mike professional. he's really to the, to, to change those, the logical force. and to those anomaly page of the g slips in this hall along with a 100 others. everyone is responsible for keeping their own sleeping area clean. this is my bed. my blush, my age and everything. my crushes. here, the furnishings are sparse and worn. there are 3 meals

a day prepared by the detaining lunch break is 30 minutes is in bins. this means and means in masonry receipts that these are the so then after which i suffer more than 21000 young man had been sent to a one line in 8 years. the government provides them with vocational training to ease their integration into society. in 6 months, the j mike, learn masonry, and be able to build new houses like these man, the for he'll learn to be a taylor and make uniforms for the center. if you could also become a carpenter,

the engineer has to be the same. is a little bit needs to be the same size. there are repeat offenders that this workshop they've been to walmart before and are starting their training all over again. the coordinator says this happens to just 5 percent. this is my 2nd time at the center. when i was released, i had no support to become a carpenter and then when i was so i went back to the same bad circles as that was arrested and brought here for the 2nd time that he says that was a mistake. i don't take drugs anymore. but they didn't see that i changed, i was just hanging out with those people from before when they caught me. yes, he doesn't appear to be suffering or to regret being here again from the inside. it's hard to tell them that this is a secure facility. you don't see military personnel or guards around at

times the wall will eat and looks like a holiday camp. it's difficult to know what's going through their minds. we meet the day again, harvesting a plant. even though he can leave of his own free will. he stresses that you want as an opportunity for him to be my friend was telling me that we have a limit or why is that by doing by this and but i was very scared. it was, i was afraid to come here. they told me that they beat me, they beat me when i get here. but it's not, it's not like how they told me. we have a good putting, so that would putting see here, our big my, the use in the recent quarter. we notice

that the coordinator and his helpers follow us at every turn. at the end of the interview, the j is led away still wearing on microphone. while you were you talking like you're being threatened. so you talked about the big man like someone's watching you and his told you what to say, but most of the people will see in the film that you're on comfortable. you know, they asked questions about people in the center. i said they were like parents to us when i said big man, i just met the director of the center. you looked at me like i was scaring you and telling you what to say. what sort of goes to another system would equate to easier job when it's no, it's not like that. i'm sorry i said big manager of a but i meant it like a father of a mobile number with level to to and the news. what did you how did the touch

to nurse over the years, they have been several reports from former residents of violence at the center. the manuel was on the island in 2018. he has very bad memories of his time at e y. what kind of go? there are too many things. i can't forget. it was terrible, mostly ruddy when we were punished for the smallest mistakes. to continue doing what even sometimes we had to hold a sandbag for 3 hours to move or hold up a heavy piece of wood until the plains sleep by raising the new hosting that isn't there. then you said it was then they did use the details as they went easy on him because of his disabled leg, but he witnessed inmates abusing other inmates under the supervision of guards. forgives video up forever know about 5 people died on the 1st day of the contract.

you know committing good moons are holding when the summer bitten them when they arrive up to there was math. any computer, even people got trampled, to go down and get okay. good article. assume that it was brutal. it seems. it was a, it was one of the men made a mistake because it was to beat me to hit bullet to get up to different in you. i mean, does the fun of him, which means you then they poured salt on his own mutual morn. we'll go because i'm, we're not gonna need that too. yeah. some of the men decided to escape the guy lives. i'm ready, knew they swim away to come with shock under them as any money. because then we found out their bodies a few days later unless he had any difficulty within that period or russian was a junior digit, as though it grew a state have rather died do wednesday at a while long. so, musician for that in on, you know, when we call waiting for me, i will, the dissenters coordinator denies allegations of misconduct. remember,

there's been several reports of violence and those are the 100 off when they pack the local. and i don't know about that. i don't know about any reports of violence or statements that say otherwise i'm going to be able to, to national and see for yourself when people are happy here. so something i've never witnessed any violence and want to save yourself. it's even have, have you heard about it? and in fact, i don't want to spread rumors in december 2019 multiple charges of violence were filed and authorities took action against several individuals. the trials took place before military officers in a court martial. in june 2021, 8 defendants were sentenced to 3 years in prison and find around 400 zeros. the case received little press coverage for independent media. freedom of expression is a daily struggling bewanda. john williams and twilio has been

a journalist for 20 years. today he's preparing for a risky interview and how i think i'll go together with his camera man. he's meeting with intellectual and former journalist, christopher k, u and the who founded his own political party. i think to work on the concept from the the authorities have since found his organization. he's now under defacto house arrest and rarely meets with journalists. the only was to get coverage for them for the immediate use only was to talk to it if he a bbc really by traditional media. yeah. excluded to them. completely tentative. the hist mccormicks are risky interview on a is but i'm taking the risk because i know i'm not hurting my country by doing a visit, at least for an hour. hello. hello. yeah,

the 2 men discuss the economic situation of the country in the wake of the corona virus pandemic. as a precaution, at no point did, they mentioned the name of the president or his party. did you notice something i do daddy by the attorney, but also think that when you discuss ladies that defy safety. that when you discuss the appropriate monday you put to do for his vision to present his name that it would be soon as possible. quit suzy. under that, it holds its own den, just above that say that in order to publish the interview, john williams decided to lead the official tv channels and launched his own youtube channel. now, do you know? what do i deal with one and i do some on just like many other journalists on the platform, them what to use. i should see the quality of activity results on console. and some

of the big advantage of youtube for us is freedom of expression. you've got, there's much more than with the visual media in a to here we are free that the media classic. coordinating with these journalists are still closely watched by the authorities. as we're about to find out i have a message from our guide. we've been in the youtube or his office for under an hour and our guide already knows about it. i understand that you're about to do an interview with john williams and tori. could you tell me what topics you will be discussing? can i assume these are not topics that we have already discussed together? thanks for keeping me informed. it is i'm surprised by this message. so call. so that's how it is here. i told you here everyone spies on everyone. almost not everyone, but i'm not part of the spying on others,

but it's a life style we're used to it like death takes place here sooner. rolanda freedom of expression is a farce. for john williams in tory, it was no surprise. he's off in the target of threats and smear campaigns on social media, and there are calls for his arrest. how, you know, one to go sit with total. it says here. more people will be charged for see that includes me yet heading to new liam's assessing. while we're on, targeted a and not indirectly, either new, very directly on. suppose we don't know what's going to happen to us. sooner or later, we'll be in for a surprise shows. this one is called a few days later, the well known blogger, a mob le kyra sierra, was arrested. he's been accused of dividing the rwandan. people don't faces a prison sentence of 10 to 25 years. during our filming

a dozen journalists were prosecuted or arrested bias ortiz is rwanda's transformation. really a miracle, or a mirage. time will tell the i'm not to notice that i love that piece. and i've loved her since the beginning because of her character. because of her courage and how she thinks. ready this reading, so today for nearly 4 decades,

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