President Kagame and the Catholic Church After the Genocide

The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 12 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Rwanda from November 6-19, 2011, to learn more about this tiny but complex Central African country.

The Gatekeepers concluded their trip by meeting with Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda. In this audio slideshow, the president talks about whether the Catholic Church has done enough after its role in the 1994 genocide.

"I don't think they have done enough, and it is one of those things that we decided to forgive but not forget," Kagame said. "So that we move on."

"When I have seen the Catholic Church apologize for other crimes they have committed elsewhere," he continued, "I always come back to the point: maybe these societies are less important than other societies."

Audio excerpt by Rebecca Davis and Melody Wilson. Photos by Sue Horton, Tom Paulson, Ed Robbins, and Rebecca Davis.

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