MBYO, Rwanda — Twenty-five years ago, Tasian Nkundiye murdered his neighbour with a machete. I even leave my children with her when I am away.”A quarter century after the 1994 genocide that killed 75% of the country’s ethnic Tutsis, Rwanda has six “reconciliation villages” like Mbyo, where genocide survivors and perpetrators live alongside each other. “I have decided to let anger go and forgive all people, including those who killed my family.”Today Mukabyagaju lives in Mbyo, where 54 families of genocide survivors and perpetrators live side by side among the village’s green fields. This is an artificial apology.”At the same time, “many survivors forgive because they are poor and need shelters or school fees,” Nshimirimana said. As for Mukalemera, the widow of the man he killed, “I didn’t know that it was Nkundiye who killed my husband.

Source: National Post April 06, 2019 09:11 UTC