Genocide survivor Jeanette Nyirabashyitsi, 45, left a Tutsi, greets Frederick Kazigwemo, a Hutu who was jailed for nine years for genocide-related crimes in the reconciliation village of Mbyo, in ...

Olive Mukankusi, a 42-year-old Hutu woman, stands near the banana beer pit where she says she hid three Tutsi people in 1994. Her husband spent 12 years in prison before they could convince the ...

BUGESERA, Rwanda (AP) — Anastasie Nyirabashyitsi and Jeanette Mukabyagaju think of each other as dear friends. The women’s friendship was cemented one day in 2007, when Mukabyagaju, going ...

In a community of genocide perpetrators and survivors outside the Rwandan capital of Kigali, more than half of 382 residents are women.

The women’s friendship was cemented one day in 2007, when Mukabyagaju, ... was leaving a child in the hands of a Hutu woman for the first time since they had known each other. ...

“I hated Hutu so much to the point that I could not agree to meet them,” she said, adding that it took a long time “to be able even think that I can interact with a Hutu.” The women are ...