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  • Kigigi, a 20 year old former fighter with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), started fighting two years ago.  A few weeks ago he decided to return to Rwanda to start a new life, a process which for him and nearly 500 others begins here at Mutobo demobilization camp in Rwanda.  April, 2009.  Michael Graham/USHMM.
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  • Former fighters of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) at Mutobo demobilization camp in Rwanda.  April, 2009.  Michael/USHMM.
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  • Three girls in Mutobo demobilization camp, Rwanda.  April, 2009.  Michael Graham/USHMM.
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  • Children of the FDLR at Mutobo demobilization camp in Rwanda.  April, 2009.  Michael Graham/USHMM.
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  • Children of the FDLR rebels stay with their parents at the demobilization center in Mutobo, Rwanda.  April, 2009.  Michael Graham/USHMM.
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  • Former rebel fighters with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda FDLR) just weeks ago were fighting the government and Rwandan forces in Congo.  Today these men and children wait at a demobilization camp in Rwanda to be sent home to their families after a decade at war.  April, 2009.  Michael Graham/USHMM.
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  • In a stadium packed with genocide survivors, the 15th commemoration of the 1994 Rwandan genocide begins.  Michael Graham/USHMM, April 2009.
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  • Emmanuel is one of the sole survivors of the attack on Murambi, the only place he says he now feels close to his family.  November 2007, Michael Graham/USHMM.
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  • A girl walks outside the Ntarama memorial site in Rwanda. November, 2007, Michael Graham/USHMM. 
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  • Gasana takes us us to the location of one of the two roadblocks on this street, manned by Interahamwe militia in the summer of 1994.  For weeks Gasana hid just 40 feet away behind a bush until escaping to Gisimba’s orphanage.
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  • Robed in purple, the color of mourning, visitors from Northern Rwanda walk slowly back to the parking lot from the classrooms.
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  • After walking through the classrooms, Gasana speaks with Emmanuel, one of only a handful of survivors from Murambi.  Emmanuel spends every waking moment here on the hill- he says it is the only place he feels close to his family.
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  • Gasana, a survivor of massacres in Kigali, at Murambi.
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  • Clothes of the victims.
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  • In 1994, Murambi was an unfinished school at the top of a hill near Gikongoro, Rwanda.  When genocide erupted in April, tens of thousands of Tutsis in the area sought refuge here.
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  • Residents of Kigali meet near Nyanza as part of the Gacaca process, a national community-level effort at providing justice to those accused of crimes during the genocide.  Rwanda has tens of thousands of alleged perpetrators still in prison, and trying them all in court would take perhaps a hundred years.  Instead, Rwanda has looked to traditional grassroots methods of justice and reconciliation.
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  • The military camp in Kigali where 10 belgian peacekeepers were tortured and murdered at the beginning of the genocide, which soon led to the evacuation of the Belgian contingent, the largest and best equipped part of the UN forces.  After their departure UN peacekeepers in Rwanda numbered less than 300 soldiers, from an original 3,000.
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  • Nyanza, a site in Kigali where several thousand people were executed after being marched from the Belgian Technical School, which had been under the protection of the UN in April, 1994 until the soldiers were recalled to the airport to help evacuate expatriates.  This is one of the few sites where victims had the honor of individual burial; most often they were buried together in large graves.
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  • A boy in front of the Ntarama church, a massacre site south of Kigali where the bones and clothing of several thousand are kept on display, slowly deteriorating from exposure to weather and light.
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  • View of the hills of Kigali from the Kigali Memorial Centre (KMC).  250,000 were killed in the Kigali area alone, and most are buried here in large concrete chambers.  Rwanda’s economy is growing rapidly through coffee and tea exports as well as Gorilla tourism, and is poised to become a regional leader in internet technology.
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  • Holes in Nyamata’s roof caused by grenade shrapnel.
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