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Andrei Popoviciu

Where Rwanda’s genocide perpetrators and survivors live side by side

It took years for Laurence to forgive Thacien, a neighbour and lifelong friend who killed her husband during the genocide [Andrei Popoviciu/Al Jazeera]

Mbyo/Kigali, Rwanda – Mukaremera Laurence gazed at the ground as Nkundiye Thacien spoke about how he used a machete to kill her husband 30 years ago.

The three of them had been neighbours and lifelong friends, living together in the Rwandan village of Mbyo. But then, in 1994, Thacien received orders to kill.

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