Martin at Nyamata
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At Ntarama Memorial, we met Martin, who needed a ride to the other genocide church at Nyamata. We learned that he was planning to clean the bones of his family, killed there in 1994. He carried a small sack of a chemical he was going to use to prepare the [...]
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Ntarama gacaca prisoner
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When we visited Ntarama, this woman, wearing the pink uniform of a genocide participant, was awaiting the proceedings, which were to take place in the field outside the church where over 5,000 men, women and children were slaughtered, most by machete and some by fire.
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Ntarama clothing
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Even though we have been in South Africa now for several days. I don’t feel finished with my writing on Rwanda. I don’t think I ever will be. The impressions and thoughts from each country visited — Uganda, Rwanda and South Africa — have been so strong, complex and emotionally wrenching [...]
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Group protrait Cape of Good Hope
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Our delegation at Africa’s end…
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Rwanda new graves
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We met a woman I’ll call Sarah in the lounge of the Kampala airport, as we were waiting for our Rwanda flight. Luckily for us, we met her again in Kigali, the capital. She works for the Justice Ministry and is the daughter of Rwandan refugees who were in Uganda [...]
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This is the dancing ceremony that greeted us at Rutanda, outside Kigali. The dancers are in the TIG program, which translates from the French as “Workers in the General Interest.” They were, for the most part, arrested after the genocide for killing over 1 million people. Rwanda can’t use its courts to prosecute them. There [...]
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TIG terrace and lake
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On the left, you can see the terraces built by TIG workers for communities that they attacked in 1994. On Saturdays, the workersgo out with members of the communities to work. Imagine working next to a man or woman (there are women among the killers) who massacred your family? [...]
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TIG workers2
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These are Rwandans convicted by gachacha courts of having taken part in the 1994 genocide. Since Rwanda’s prisons are so full — over one million people are believed to have taken part in killing 900,000 people in three months — Rwanda punishes them though the “Work in the General Interest” (TIG) [...]
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TASO group picture
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We are off to Rwanda this evening, and I don’t know what the internet availability will be — so here is a last Uganda post, in hopes of more soon to come from Kigali. This is our delegation (without Wake Forest senior James Beshwara, who took the photo) with the [...]
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TASO singers
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Yesterday, we had the privilege of visiting TASO, a clinic in Kampala where Ugandans with HIV/AIDS get treatment, companionship and assistance in managing the disease and their lives. TASO has a musical group, and they performed three songs for us about facing and overcoming the stigma that still comes with testing [...]
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