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  • Mathias, a former soldier with the FNL, a Burundian rebel group, at a demobilization center in Gitega, Burundi.  June, 2009.  Rebecca Feeley/USHMM.
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  • Joseph, a 26 year former FNL rebel at a demobilization center in Burundi.  June 2009.  Rebecca Feeley/USHMM.
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  • The demobilization center in Gitega, Burundi, June 2009.  Rebecca Feeley/USHMM.
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  • The gas Station in Kibimba, Burundi, where over 70 Tutsi students from a nearby secondary school were taken and burned alive on October 21, 1993.  Rebecca Feeley/USHMM, June 2009.
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  • Fleeing ethnic conflict in eastern Congo in 2004, many Congolese Tutsi sought refuge in a camp that was once on these grassy plains near Gatumba, Burundi.  Rebecca Feeley/USHMM, June 2009.
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  • Children play along the shore of Lake Tanganyika.  Rebecca Feeley/USHMM, June 2009.
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  • A cross placed at the Kibimba Memorial Site remembering the “child victims of genocide.” Rebecca Feeley/USHMM, June 2009.
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  • “Never Again” Memorial at Kibimba, Burundi.  Rebecca Feeley/USHMM, June 2009.
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  • Resting on a hill overlooking Bujumbura is Burundi’s Independence Monument inscribed with the National Motto: Unity, Work, Progress.  Rebecca Feeley/USHMM.  June, 2009.
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  • A young woman waits on a bus in Muyinga, Burundi.  The bus is on its way to an information center and temporary shelters before the returnees begin the journey back to home communities throughout Burundi.
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  • The cooking skills training in the commune Nyanza-Lac.  These youth are supported by IRC in a 6-month training course on cooking; they learn both practical and theoretical aspects of the trade.  Their instructor was a local woman who expressed to us the joy she felt in teaching the youth and despite her small kitchen was willing to take on more students.
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  • Perhaps one of the most beautiful places on earth; the capital city of Bujumbura is situated on Lake Tanganyika.
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