A screening of the film “My Neighbor, My Killer” and discussion with the filmmaker, Anne Aghion, were held on April 12, 2012.

“Could you ever forgive the people who slaughtered your family?” In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus were incited to wipe out the country’s Tutsi minority. From the crowded capital to the smallest village, local patrols massacred lifelong friends and family members, most often with machetes and improvised weapons. From 2001 until 2012, the government put in place the Gacaca - open-air hearings with citizen-judges meant to try their neighbors and rebuild the nation. As part of this experiment in reconciliation, confessed genocide killers were sent home from prison, while traumatized survivors were asked to forgive them and resume living side-by-side.

Event flyer here.