In 1994, the small African country of Rwanda was awash in blood. Extremists in the majority Hutu-controlled government organized a systematic genocide of Rwanda's minority Tutsi population. In just 100 days, more than 800,000 were killed. The atrocity was halted a decade ago, but for Rwandans the ordeal does not yet have an ending.
Today, the physical scars sustained by survivors are fading, but emotional scars remain. Rwanda: Do Scars Ever Fade? explores the country's turbulent pre-genocide history, the horrifying 1994 slaughter and the difficult ten-year, post-genocide period during which the current government has embarked upon an ambitious effort aimed at reconciliation.
The program grapples with a perplexing question: How does a country haunted by the scourge of its past recover? Producer - Paul Freedman Director - Paul Freedman Release Date - 2005
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