Fifteen Years After The Genocide, Rwandans Struggle To Heal National Wounds

PBS - Online NewsHour with Jeffrey Brown.

Author Philip Gourevitch discusses his piece in the New Yorker reflecting on the state of Rwanda 15 years after genocide ravaged the country.

...Shortly after the killing ended, journalist Philip Gourevitch began traveling to Rwanda to interview survivors and perpetrators. His award-winning book on the subject, "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families," was published in 1998.
He returned recently and, in an article in the New Yorker magazine, wrote about the remarkable changes he found. Philip Gourevitch, whose latest book is "The Ballad of Abu Ghraib," joins me now...

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