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The Documentary Podcast

Road to Rwanda

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2010

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

"I don't know anything about the genocide. I didn't kill anyone or steal from anyone. I just want to get back to my home, to my family property with my children," Sorious Samura follows Vestine, a Hutu refugee as she returns home to Rwanda after the genocide.

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0:00.0

This is a BBC Podcast. You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCWorldService.com

0:07.3

Slash Podcasts.

0:10.2

This week, in the Monday documentary, the award-winning African journalist, Soria Samura,

0:15.8

finds out what happens when some Hutu refugees go home to Rwanda, 16 years after the genocide,

0:22.2

by travelling with Vestin, a young Hutu refugee, as she takes herself and her family on the

0:28.2

road to Rwanda.

0:32.3

My name is Soria Samura. I'm here in a refugee transit camp in Goma, in the eastern Democratic

0:38.3

Republic of Gungu, and I'm at the beginning of a remarkable journey.

0:46.5

All the people around me are Rwandan Hutu's, who fled in 1994, following the victory of

0:52.2

the invading Tutzileb rebel force, the APF. They were joined by the Hutu power extremists

0:59.5

who were responsible for the one and genocide earlier that year, in which an estimated 800,000

1:06.7

people, mostly Tutzis, were killed.

1:15.0

These people have been living in exile, side by side with the very people who were responsible

1:21.1

for the genocide, the Inter-Harmory, who are still out there fighting. For 15 years, many

1:28.0

of these people have been living in terrible conditions in the forest of Gungu, constantly

1:34.0

moving.

1:35.0

But tomorrow, these people are going home, and I'm here to find one of them who lets

1:40.2

me join them on that journey, to try and understand what it's like to return to Rwanda, after

1:46.7

those faithful few months of 1994.

1:54.0

I heard that Rwanda was peaceful now. My sister came here and told me about it, and that's

1:59.7

when I thought about going home.

2:06.4

We were hearing from people that if you go back, you will be killed, but we looked into

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