Can a country known for its radical brutality become a country known for an even more radical forgiveness?
More than a decade after the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan government has released tens of thousands of murderers back into the communities they ravaged.
Based on personal interviews and thorough research, As We Forgive returns to the boundary lines of genocide's wounds and traces the route of reconciliation in the lives of Rwandans - victims, widows, orphans and perpetrators - whose past and future intersect. We find in these stories how suffering, memory, and identity set up roadblocks to forgiveness, while mediation, truth-telling, restitution and interdependence create bridges to healing.
More than a decade after the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan government has released tens of thousands of murderers back into the communities they ravaged.
Based on personal interviews and thorough research, As We Forgive returns to the boundary lines of genocide's wounds and traces the route of reconciliation in the lives of Rwandans - victims, widows, orphans and perpetrators - whose past and future intersect. We find in these stories how suffering, memory, and identity set up roadblocks to forgiveness, while mediation, truth-telling, restitution and interdependence create bridges to healing.
