As We Forgive
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Saturday, December 19, 2009 10:33 AM
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Here’s the trailer for a forthcoming documentary on the reconciliation process in Rwanda.
Reviewer Tabitha Blanski explains a bit more about the film.
In less than 100 days, nearly one million people were murdered and tens of thousands were responsible for these deaths….Genocide destroyed Rwanda—socially, economically, and politically. After some measure of stability was restored, the new leaders needed to find a way to further return order and rebuild the infrastructure that was lost. Punishing the murderers and enacting justice was immediately a problem. How do you uphold justice when the guilty are too many to count? The small, landlocked country didn’t have the prison space to lock up all of the killers. With an overwhelming backlog of court cases and little hope of full reparation, Rwanda’s leaders tried something revolutionary. Incarceration and execution were set aside in favor of reconciliation. Beginning in 2003, over 50,000 killers who acknowledged their part in the genocide were released and reintegrated back into society. The doors were opened for genocidaires to live side by side with the surviving members of families they had destroyed.
As We Forgive focuses the camera on that process from the point of view not only of survivors, but of perpetrators now overcome by shame and desire for mercy.
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