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Article: Africa After War: Paths to Forgiveness - Why Jeannette employs her family's killers; In Rwanda, which was riven by genocide in 1994, a coffee farm brings Hutu and Tutsi together.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 24, 2006
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Byline: Abraham McLaughlin Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BUTARE, RWANDA -- A tall, slender Tutsi woman named Jeannette Nyirabaganwa has at least 100 perfectly good reasons never to speak to Anastaz Turimubakunzi again.
That's how many of Jeannette's relatives, including her husband, parents, and baby, were killed during the 1994 genocide that raced through her hometown here in Africa's midsection. Anastaz is a confessed killer who, Jeannette says, helped murder her husband.
Yet Jeannette does, in fact, speak to Anastaz regularly. She even pays him - along with other Hutus who killed her relatives - to work on her coffee farm. Increasingly, their ...
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