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ABC's Martha Raddatz (embargoed link) took us to a single church in Rwanda where 10,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutu genocide in 1994: "Blood still stains the brick walls and the altar cloth." For NBC's In Depth, Martin Fletcher took us to another church where 5,000 was massacred in just three hours. At one memorial "there are rows and rows of skulls killed in different ways,"--one with a bullet hole; most smashed with clubs; one with the tip of a spear sticking out.
Yet the National Unity & Reconciliation Commission is busy holding tribunals where Hutu killers, "jailed in pink to humiliate them," apologize for their crimes against their Tutsi neighbors. NBC's Fletcher reckoned 1.2m Rwandans attend the weekly courts "listening, judging and maybe forgiving." The upshot is a national rebirth, ABC's Raddatz reported: "Rwanda is seeing a revitalization in education, healthcare and in its economy with growth of more than 6% over each of the last ten years."
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