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[music]

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Marceline was wounded. Right
arm burn by a grenade.

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She received a machete blow to her head.

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[sil.]

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I asked her where it happened.

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She started to cry, so I didn\'t press her.
And she told me, \"I came up with mum.

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The grenades exploded and I
fell but I watched my mum die.\"

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After that my minds are blank.

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Then I met you. That\'s Marceline\'s story.

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[sil.]

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We found approximately 500 people

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the majority of the people
under 18 years of age.

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Many of them are children and
infants, babies on mother\'s back.

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They\'ve been killed by machete,

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a heavy knife, something like that.

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[sil.]

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This is really one of the first opportunities
that dead have had a chance to tell their story.

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We did it very patient and did this work all
over the world and the dead are patient,

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they\'ll wait 10 years, 14 years, 20 years. The
flesh may disappear, the bones are usually there

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and have a story to tell. They have
story to say, this is how old I am,

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this is my nutritional state, this is the
bones I broke, this is the bones that healed,

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maybe this is the kind of work
I do and this is how I died.

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And these people down here… this is like
an echo chamber, it\'s an echo chamber

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that resonates that the testimony
of the living witnesses.

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And these people, these dead people were telling us
the same story that the living witnesses had told us.

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[sil.]

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I don\'t know where my wife
and my children are buried.

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I hoped I would find their clothing but I
haven\'t seen any that belonged to my family.

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[sil.]

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I think about this a lot. I\'m
often depressed, discouraged.

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I would draw to hide my sore.
I try to keep it to myself.

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[sil.]

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It\'s not the peace of the dead

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that we\'re talking about here.
It\'s the peace of the living.

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The contribution of these dead

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can make to the living, make to the
Tribunal, make to the investigations,

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resolve questions for the living
victims, put their minds at rest

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as much as possible.

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These dead contribute to life. It\'s
horrible they had to do it this way

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uh… but they so contribute to life

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and we hope it\'ll contribute to a better life
for us all. (inaudible) one people here.

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[sil.]

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[non-English narration]

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Perhaps, little by little,
there will be reconciliation,

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but not quite yet. It will take time.
I don\'t know how long.

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But I can tell there\'s no
reconciliation at the moment.

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Maybe you don\'t see so much hate
among the people on the surface.

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But when you think about what happened,
it\'s not yet time to forgive and forget.

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[sil.]

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[music]

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[music]

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[non-English narration]

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[non-English narration]

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[non-English narration]

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Many, many people were put to death
by the RPF on her (inaudible).

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It was a settling of accounts.

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Those (inaudible) were
executed point blank.

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[music]

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When we came back here, we held
mass on a Kabgayi basilica.

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At the end of the mass, an officer
appeared. A major I think. He was actually

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the prefect of Gitarama. His name is George
Sivayana. He arrived at the basilica

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with his body guard saying he
wanted to see head of the diocese.

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\"That\'s me,\" I replied.

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He said, \"You cannot hold mass without my permission.\"
Adding, \"Show me papers authorizing you live here,

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or I\'ll force you to leave\".
\"Sir,\" I replied. \"Be logical,

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you tell refuges to return home. I returned home and
you threatened to make me leave. I won\'t leave.

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I\'m not going anywhere. This is my home.\"

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[non-English narration]

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People were afraid because
in certain places

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the RPF were also conducting massacres. They
actually killed a large number of civilians.

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[music]

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I\'ve discovered houses
that had to be condemned

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because they were full of rotten bodies.

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In some houses there
were hundreds of bodies,

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in places such as Ambary,
Kianza, Kiaza and elsewhere.

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I want to lay grounds for speculation.
As it has been the case recently,

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but in my own village, I personally
counted more than 200 people

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who\'d been murdered by the RPF.

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[music]

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The list on this table
contain the names of those

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killed by the Rwandan Patriotic Army, after
they took control of Gitarama district.

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These lists were drawn up
by the local residents

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as a means of sounding the alarm.

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[non-English narration]

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Gitarama is a region known for its
strong nationalist tendencies.

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In 1959 Rwandan Revolution began there.

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The inhabitants are very aware of what goes on.
They were the first ones who dare draw lists.

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Move to the Prime Minister, the extent of
the army\'s doings throughout the country.

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[non-English narration]

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This is (inaudible). Here you
have the names of the victims.

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Their father\'s names, their place of
birth and the date they were killed

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in July and August. Some
were killed in September.

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That\'s how the lists were drawn out.
In this (inaudible) alone

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1,723 people were killed.

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I\'ve compiled all these lists

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to a total of 18,000 people murdered
in the Gitarama district alone.

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[music]

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I\'m in a member of the
RPF since April 1991.

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I know a lot of other massacres committed
by the Rwandan Patriotic Army.

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[non-English narration]

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The RPF wanted to establish its supremacy. And to
do so, they had to eliminate any potential rival.

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[non-English narration]

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In many cases the army came for men, ages 15 to 55
and took them away by night, never to be seen again.

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[non-English narration]

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Their families searches for them
in vain in the prisons of Rwanda,

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but they all died in the hands
of Rwandan Patriotic Army.

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[non-English narration]

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The General, Cadrin, wants to select youth and
men who were still active, as well as leaders,

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teachers, farming instructors.

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Anyone who play the role, any community
leader was particularly singled out.

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[non-English narration]

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[sil.]

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In august, 94 we were
transferred to the bureau camp.

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We got military training there. that\'s when
I first began to have doubts about the RPF.

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I was in the medical core. One day,
a friend asked me to sign a paper,

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authorizing him leave on medical grounds.
I asked him what was going on.

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He told me that every day he was assigned
to what they call, \"Man Power Duty.\"

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He describes how prisoners were
taken to a specific place.

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And what went on there?
They were killing people.

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[non-English narration]

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First their arms and legs were bound.
Then they struck them on the forehead

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with a hammer or something hard.

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My friend have been doing
this for five days.

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He told me he counted
at least 6,000 people.

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Afterwards, they set fire to them

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with petrol and wood. The remains
were buried by bulldozer and tractor.

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[music]

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Gameros, located on the hunting
grounds of Akagera National Park.

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They took people there to slaughter them. It
was an ideal site inside the military zone.

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Nobody we permitted to enter, except for

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the military intelligence the DMI.

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[sil.]

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Every evening around six we\'d see smoke.
It wasn\'t buffalo burning.

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It was human beings. Every
single day I felt sick.

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I could smell this horrible odour.

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No one could protest.

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I was acquainted with some cases of
people who showed signs of depression.

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They were killed. They couldn\'t
cope, so they also had to die.

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When they began to ramble, say certain
things, they were eliminated.

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[sil.]

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Soon after the RPA seized
control of each place,

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there were large scale execution. That
lasted until approximately September 94.

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[sil.]

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[music]

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Over the space of a year I wrote 700
letters, a minimum of two per day.

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To alert the Vice-president, General
Kagame, to what the army had done.

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[music]

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I told general Kagame that
if we weren\'t careful,

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there would be nothing to differentiate us
from the army we had managed to defeat.

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Our soldiers were repeating
the very same acts.

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[non-English narration]

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General Kagame said that in the first
wasn\'t obliged to respond to my letters.

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Secondly, he considered
that I was accusing him of

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incompetence of his ministerial duties.

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Thirdly, he said he would recommend to the
President that I\'d be named Defense Minister.

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That was to ridicule me of course.

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During the meeting, Kagame,
picked up his brief case

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and in the presence of the president and the
whole cabinet, stormed out of the room.

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We tried to get him to return but
to no avail. That was August 25th.

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The next day, there was a cabinet
shuffle, a house cleaning.

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In other words, instead of seriously
attending to discuss such problems,

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General Kagame chose the strong arm method.

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[sil.]

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[music]

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[music]

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When we talked to people, we discovered there were
many orphans, many widows, many homes in ruins.

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[music]

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A Rwandan without a roof over his head is not
exactly very dangerous but is very vulnerable.

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[sil.]

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So we organized a way of bringing Hutu
and Tutsi together on building sciences,

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making bricks and so on.

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[non-English narration]

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At first, they didn\'t talk to one another. There was no
communication what so ever. They just glared at each other.

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And if they worked side by side, they
got tired and hungry at the same time

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and would take noon brake together.
And sometimes while relaxing at lunch

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over a bottle of local beer, the
ice broke little by little.

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[non-English narration]

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To make a long story short,
gradually, as the walls went up,

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their minds opened. Some Hutu and Tutsi
even started sharing their beer,

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it was wonderful.

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[sil.]

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Out of (inaudible) elsewhere,

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there were campaigns of slander,
lies, obituary arrests,

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imprisonments and so on based on rumor.

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But where ever we begun building houses
together, we noticed less lies and slanders,

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fewer attempts to have someone jailed in order
to make off for this house and belongings.

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[sil.]

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[sil.]

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[non-English narration]

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He was arrested on September 13th.

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That\'s when he received these beatings.

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The military tortured him,
he was bound and beaten.

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They tie your arms behind your back
and the wire cuts into your flesh.

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They used electrical cable.

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Here are more marks from the blows.
And this is a fresh wound.

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[non-English narration]

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Two months ago, and it hasn\'t yet healed.

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They haven\'t yet recovered because
after they were tortured,

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bound and cut up like that, they were
thrown into the hole for an entire week

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so the wounds became infected.
Look at this,

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the arm is completely paralyzed.
The muscle must\'ve atrophied.

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[non-English narration]

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This man was tied up in Gitarama, right
at the spot where they captured him.

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He was bound from behind and
suspended from the roof.

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He twisted and turned while the
soldiers beat him senseless.

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[non-English narration]

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He lost all feeling in his feet. He
has no movement in his ankles either

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and this hand is dead.

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[sil.]

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I feel betrayed somehow.

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I\'ve discovered horrific abuses
by people I used to trust.

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[non-English narration]

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There\'s been so much
revenge, so much greed.

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Moderate Hutu had no place in this country. At
all, Hutu feel they\'re being branded as murderers.

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[music]

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[sil.]

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[sil.]

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[sil.]

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While investigating the Tutsi genocide,

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I selected thousands of eye witness reports
on massacres committed by the RPF.

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[non-English narration]

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In my region, the RPF (inaudible) quickly.
The genocide began

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on the evening of April 11th in my area.
At 1 PM on the 19th

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the RPF arrived in Wamagana,
and by 6th at evening

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bodies littered the road from Wamagana, all the
way to Kariansa, as witnesses testify including

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the members of my own family. Some victims
still lingered to the throws of agony

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which means that they\'ve attacked
around 4:00 or 5:00 that afternoon.

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People were still crying out in pain.

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Witnesses report that these
people had gone to a meeting

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called by the RPF on the day of their
arrival and were slaughtered right there.

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April, may, June,

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that\'s when many masquerades were discovered.
I found at least seven in my district.

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[non-English narration]

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You come across perhaps, 30, 15
or dozen bodies lying together.

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People say, over here are the victims of the RPF.
And over there, victims killed by the militia.

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An investigation would not be difficult

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except that now people are afraid to talk.

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When I arrived in July, people trusted me, they knew
me, they told me everything without hesitation.

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I began to receive threats from the military
intelligence, the DMI, because I was interested in

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what had happened to
people reported missing.

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Thousands of people had disappeared and
were rumored to be in detention somewhere.

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I travelled around visiting
re-official and non-official jails.

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Interrogating prison authorities
and directors, but to know a way.

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[sil.]

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Outside Gitarama prison,

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on my visit in January 95. A
DMI agent form Kibungo called.

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I\'m over here, I have
something to tell you.

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I parked the car nearby and he warned. Listen, you better
be careful here. don\'t hang out in any night clubs

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or sleep over in Gitarama,

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because we, the DMI, have
been given the mission

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to get rid of you, to kill you.

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So I took his advice.

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I didn\'t stay in the country much longer,
that wasn\'t January. At the end of February,

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down to 27 to be exact, I left my
country and went into exile here.

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[music]

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In early 1995 there were
about 165 deaths each month.

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[music]

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I\'ve come to visit this prison

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to see the situation first hand.

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There were three layers. Underneath
there were dead prisoners

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lying on the ground. Then those
crouching in the process of dying.

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Then there were others who could still
stand even though their tibia bones

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were actually starting to
disintegrate like a melting candle.

00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:39.999
[sil.]

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They were squashed together,
five to a square meter upright,

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virtually unable to move.

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There were forced to stand on their
fesses which cause their feet to rot.

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It was intolerable.

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[sil.]

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A UN officer had macabre experience here.

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A prisoner ripped off his own big toe and threw it in the
officer\'s face. This was his response to the officer\'s words,

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we\'ve come to see your living conditions.
He saw alright.

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[sil.]

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The Red Cross delegate

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told us that 292 prisoners had gangrene.

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It was catastrophic. We had
no choice but to amputate.

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[sil.]

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This patient\'s been amputated
at the Kabgayi hospital.

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We started the amputation lowered down but that
wasn\'t sufficient. We had to amputate higher up.

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That one as well.

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[non-English narration]

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This is a similar case.

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The mucous membranes were
terribly infected all the way up

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forcing us to remove the entire leg.

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This one was lucky, he only lost a foot.

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But that patient lost everything.

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That one as well.

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Luckily, this one had only

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a partial amputation. This man as well.

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Here\'s someone

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who almost lost the whole foot.
Only the big toe was left.

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And this man\'s lucky. We might\'ve amputated
higher up. But when we operated,

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we realized he was starting to
heal, he lost the other foot.

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He lost his toes in here, half a leg.

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[sil.]

00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:59.999
[non-English narration]

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So I said, \"If we don\'t do something,
this prison will become a morgue.

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Each and every prisoner might die. I made a decision
which may be my undoing which I\'ll never regret.

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It was regent we do everything in our
power to improve conditions of detention.

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[sil.]

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That\'s when I decided the
prison must be enlarged.

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We increased it by 4,000 square
meters, which 80% of it under roof.

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[sil.]

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(inaudible) the hospitalization by the end
of last year, there were no more deaths

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in Gitarama jail.

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[sil.]

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Sure, the remaining prisoners.
There are murders among them.

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We don\'t pretend they\'re all innocent. But
it\'s not for us to sentence them to death.

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It\'s not for us to decide how prisoners
must die before they\'ve gone to trial.

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[music]

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How many people do they want to
try, seriously? How many people

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are they willing to execute, if it comes to that? uh… how many
people are they willing to imprison and how are they gonna provide

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for their long term imprisonment. All these are
issues that I think have not been resolved

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in the government. And because they
haven\'t been resolved, it leaves

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the way clear to a small
group of extremeness

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to use the judicial system
for their own political ends

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by incarcerating people for
their political beliefs

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on the accusation of genocide.

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[music]

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[non-English narration]

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The RPF itself is justice

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because they have committed
crimes and continued to do so.

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When someone feels guilty, he tries to create a phony system
of justice in order to manipulate the law on his favor.

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[sil.]

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So what\'s happening today?

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You have the official government trying to rebuild
the justice system just like any other country.

00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:39.999
[non-English narration]

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But an under hand form of power exists in the
back corridors, an invisible parallel government

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that monopolizes and feeds and
paralyzes everything in its path.

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Those now in power refuse to
cooperate with justice officers

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from the foreign regime. Any
Hutu attempting to work

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as a justice officer today
is committing suicide.

00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:10.000
[sil.]

00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:19.999
[sil.]

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On February 26th the Rwandan Patriotic
Army made an attempt on my life.

00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.999
[sil.]

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It\'s hard to accept that my nephew

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who was with me at the time was more seriously
wounded than I was. It\'s a heavy burden to bear.

00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:48.000
[non-English narration]

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I got into my car, rolled down the window

00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:09.999
and started the engine. When I saw a young
man draw his gun and fire at me point blank.

00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:14.999
[non-English narration]

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Luckily the second I saw him, pulled
the pistol from his pocket. I had time

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to protect myself like this and the bullet
hit my shoulder instead of my head.

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It entered here and came out
of this spot, I\'m touching.

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[non-English narration]

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The police arrived and arrested the man. He identified
himself as secretary of the Rwandan Embassy in Nairobi.

00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:09.999
[non-English narration]

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The individual found on the site of the attack
in possession of a firearm with a silencer

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which the police are tested was still hot.
He was in fact a Rwandan diplomat.

00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:28.000
[sil.]

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[sil.]

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The situation is extremely dangerous.
You must be careful,

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watch what you say and write.

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People now on power are not used to governing
under what you might call, \'normal conditions.\'

00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:14.999
[sil.]

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If you don\'t agree with them or
criticize the way things are done,

00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:24.999
they won\'t tolerate it. You must be extremely
cautious, particularly when it comes to

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editorial commentary that can irritate
them no end. Will make them very nervous

00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:34.999
and when they\'re nervous
they become trigger happy.

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[music]

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[sil.]

00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:14.999
I believe the campaign to slander my name
is liked to my stands on my Human Rights

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and also because of the journalists. I say
things that don\'t always please those in power.

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[sil.]

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In any case, we\'re trying to be responsible

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and carry on with our work without cowing to
any authority, religious or political ones.

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When we hear the outcry of the people,

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we try our best to listen and see what we
can do to bring some relief, that\'s all.

00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:50.000
[sil.]

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[sil.]

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On July 25th 1995,

00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:14.999
lasid kudani was assassinated at his
home, just after his release from jail.

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Few days late on August 1st
(inaudible) sub prefect of kigongoro

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was also killed. That same day, August 1st,

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Father (inaudible) was gunned down as well. I
discovered his body among the banana trees

00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:34.999
where he had fallen.

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[sil.]

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He was lying exactly in this position,
you see that spot? It\'s blood.

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The head was here

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and the body was lying stretched out on
the ground up to here when I found it.

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[sil.]

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They pointed the gun barrel at his head.

00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:09.999
You could tell because his hair was hinged.
It smelled of gun powder.

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[music]

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He was a friend of mine.

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As head of the diocese of Kabgayi I
delivered a homily. My dear brethren,

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when it comes to survival we have doubt
chosen the wrong path, the way of the cross.

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If we do our duty well, we will
have to go the way of the cross.

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They will surely hang us. But if they
kill us at work, in the course of duty,

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that will be our glory.

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Personally, that\'s what guides me. Anyhow, one
fine day, the sun will no longer rise for me.

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Whether I\'m in charge of diocese,
or running the newspaper,

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or the Head of the Human rights Group,
I have chosen the way of the cross.

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And with the bit of luck I will probably be
hanged for having done my work properly.

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That\'s the way it goes.

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During the genocide we saw Hutu risking their lives
to protect Tutsi, whose lives were in danger.

00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:54.999
But now we\'re seeing a backlash against
people who took risks to protect others.

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They\'re being imprisoned or killed.

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[sil.]

00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:09.999
This undermines and completely destroys

00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:14.999
any confidence anyone might
have in the new order.

00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:19.999
[non-English narration]

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So now some people regret that they ever
help the Tutsi. There\'s a potential danger

00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:29.999
that once again this country
will be divided into two camps,

00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:34.999
Hutu on one side and Tutsi on the other.
And if ever another ethnic of evil occurs

00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:39.999
which is not unlikely, I think many,
many more people are bound to die.

00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:44.999
[non-English narration]

00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:53.000
[sil.]

00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:04.999
[sil.]

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[music]

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There are those who reluctant to believe
or who would believe from time to time.

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There are those like us who
look at these ruins today

00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:34.999
and though the monsters were dead and
buried beneath them. There are those of us

00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:39.999
who take hope again as the image fades.

00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:44.999
Those of us who pretend all this
happened only once at a certain time

00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:49.999
in a specific country. Those
who refuse to look around us.

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Death to the endless cry.

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(inaudible) surviver of the Nazi holocaust.

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[music]