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Available
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Publication
Brooklyn, NY : First Run/Icarus Films (2004)
Local notes
USIP grant product USIP-022-03F.
"Two years [after the Gacaca tribunals] ... close to 16,000 of these [genocide] suspects, still untried, are released across the country. Having confessed to their crimes, and having served the maximum sentence the Gacaca tribunals would eventually impose, perpetrators of appalling crimes are sent home to plow fields and fetch water alongside the people they victimized. IN RWANDA WE SAY ... focuse[s] on the release of one suspect, tracking the effect of his return on a tiny hillside hamlet. While the government's message of a "united Rwandan family" permeates the language of the community, the imposed co-existence brings forth varying emotions, from numb acceptance to repressed rage. Violence seems to lurk just below the surface"--Container.
"Two years [after the Gacaca tribunals] ... close to 16,000 of these [genocide] suspects, still untried, are released across the country. Having confessed to their crimes, and having served the maximum sentence the Gacaca tribunals would eventually impose, perpetrators of appalling crimes are sent home to plow fields and fetch water alongside the people they victimized. IN RWANDA WE SAY ... focuse[s] on the release of one suspect, tracking the effect of his return on a tiny hillside hamlet. While the government's message of a "united Rwandan family" permeates the language of the community, the imposed co-existence brings forth varying emotions, from numb acceptance to repressed rage. Violence seems to lurk just below the surface"--Container.