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? But that is what is happening here.
Not surprisingly, this program is very controversial. Shouldn’t killers pay with jail time? Shouldn’t retributive justice, a prison sentence, send the message that such behavior is unacceptable, ensuring that it does not repeat?
Yet too many people took part in the genocide to adequately punish. Besides, what good to healthy, active people do to this desperately poor country locked away behind bars?
Many hard questions…