Rwanda Revisited

April 1996
A historic report on how Tutsis are rebuilding their lives after the genocide.

In Kigali Tutsis are building a new business community. Once they were aristocrats, then they were exiles, now they are entrepreneurs. Aimable Rumongi, an exile from Nairobi, has arrived in Rwanda for the first time. He shows off his gleaming new sports shop. In a refugee camp on the northern border, amongst endless rows of dirty, blue tents, Jonas Twagirayesu also plans to return home. He and his family fold up their canvas shelter and anxiously climb into the UN trucks. In a dark suit, Major-General Paul Kagame, vice president of Rwanda, maintains that the Hutu refugees are safe to return. He denies an allegation made by the former Minister of the Interior that revenge killings continue to take Place. Back in his home village, Jonas finds that that the roof on his house has sunk to the floor. His fields are overgrown and tangled with weeds. While Aimable and his friends talk of commercial co-operation between the Tutsis and the Hutus, Jonas has more immediate problems. He hopes next month that his banana plants will be free from the weeds.

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[kentstwart]

i just returned from rwanda. there are no hutu or tutsi now. only rwandans. the country has made incredible progress since 1994. You are dead wrong

[Lasarus4]

1. No one knows who shot down the president's plane.

2. The killing of president Habyarimana was not actual reason behind the genocide.

Read som history, I suggest "The Rwanda Crisis" by Prunier

[UncleFourFinger]

Niggers

[Pmashami]

No it's unresonable thinking and misuse of power that led to the genocide of 1994

[CZlaowai]

@Pmashami It's racism like that which laid the foundations for what happened in 1994.

[HeshimaJameni]

@mavinga.

Thank you very much for your compliment. Let's continue to use this forum to educate our brothers and sisters.

[divalaudyana]

@HeshimaJameni WTF are you talking about. please read my comment before you open your pie hole

[HeshimaJameni]

Yeah right!! And in which country do the bantu tribe live? I guess Dikembe Mutombo is short compared to you, right?

[litebearer777]

I was there within 6 months of this video. in Kigali. Worked as cameraman for a minister who had a meeting of 25,000 plus Hutu AND Tutsi in the same field next to the stadium. I'm not convinced it is tribal at the root any more than it is media fueled . The people have their local agendas, and the radio/tv is the voice of direction, leadership. For good or evil, or neither we are conditioned to believe what is told us, we don't question it's influence on us.

[UserUK201]

@2smokey4u Are you cranky because you got a vibrator shoved up your arse?

[2smokey4u]

You my friend put the Moron in Oxymoron because that's how your replies come across. Have a good one and good luck in the darkness you live in!