Almost 30 years have passed since the genocide in Rwanda and the society is still divided with tension between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic tribes. The Church continues to carry out work of reconciliation.
BEN NSENGIYUMVA
There was this awareness of saying we can't change the past but we have to live together.
So there is this awareness of peaceful coexistence at the beginning.
The Gacaca courts, a system of community justice, has fostered forgiveness between Hutus and Tutsis. In it, Rwandans of both ethnicities gather to remember what happened.
BEN NSENGIYUMVA
Survivors, for example, have the right to know how their loved ones died. So there is this movement of telling people, telling the truth, asking for forgiveness and also accompanying the survivors as much as possible.
Father Ben assures that each anniversary revives the memory of the genocide. Achieving forgiveness will take decades of work. Over 800,000 Rwandans were killed during the first 100 days of the conflict.
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