Rwanda 30 years on

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Victoria Uwonkunda makes an emotional journey back to Rwanda, where she grew up. It is the first time she has visited since the age of 12, when she fled the 1994 genocide with her family. Victoria retraces her journey to safety out of the capital Kigali, to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Along the way she speaks to survivors of the violence – both victims and perpetrators - to find out how the country is healing, through reconciliation and forgiveness. Victoria meets Evariste and Narcisse, who work together on a reconciliation project called Cows for Peace. Evariste killed Narcisse’s mother during the 1994 genocide. And she meets Claudette, who suffered unimaginable horrors at the hands of a man, Jean Claude, sitting next to her as she tells her story.

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0:24.0	For as long as I can remember I've wanted to go back home to Rwanda, home to the place where I was born.
0:39.0	A home I hadn't seen in fact years.
0:43.0	Well, hello, hello ladies.
0:47.0	Thank you guys.
0:49.0	Well, here we are.
0:51.0	I'm finally going home guys. I know that's you were supposed to wait for us you know I'm
0:56.4	Victoria Wuhanha from the BBC wall service with the documentary Randa 30 years on
1:01.9	in the next hour I'll be exploring personal journeys,
1:06.0	my own returning to Randa, and the deep and emotional stories
1:11.0	of those who had a role in the killings in the 1994 genocide and their survivors.
1:20.0	This day had been long in the making. Okay, there goes the suitcase.
1:27.0	We are zipping in and they are
1:30.0	ready to go. I fled the Rwandan genocide as a child on the
1:39.0	cusp of teenage hood. Here I was returning as a woman. I now live in the UK and I am a
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