Healing of a Nation, Rwanda after the Genocide Screening of the award-winning film, “My Neighbor, My Killer” Address by a Tutsi survivor Sunday 21 July, 2pm Leo Baeck Centre 31-37 Harp Road, Kew East Entry: $15 includes afternoon tea Over a three-month period from 21 April 1994, more than one million Tutsis (75% of their numbers) were murdered in a most brutal way by their fellow Rwandan Hutu tribesmen. And the world stood by and let it happen; shades of the past? Now, on the eve of the twentieth year since that genocide, Hatikvah & Yitzhak Rabin Units of B’nai B’rith Victoria are remembering those tragic events with a talk by a Tutsi survivor and the screening of an award winning film retracing the efforts of the Rwandan government to bring the perpetrators to justice, and attempt to regain the trust of the Tutsis to again coexist with their Hutu neighbours. Faina Iligoga, a Rwandan Tutsi (now living in Hobart, Tasmania), will retell of her experiences in those dark days, but especially where of all people, it was a Hutu tribesman who saved her from the massacres. This will be followed by the documentary ‘My Neighbor, My Killer’, filmed over ten years by the Emmy Award winning cinematographer Anne Aghion, sensitively recording the healing process and the traditional Rwandan system of Gacaca or ‘Justice administered whilst sitting on the grass’. RSVP Jock or Monica on 03 9803 2929 or to [email protected] Proceeds: directed to the IRIBA Multimedia Heritage Centre in Kigali, Rwanda where film and other archives are preserved for the purposes of education to avoid a repetition of the massacres or the denial that they ever took place.
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