Portraits Of Reconciliation

Unimaginable Photos Capture Genocide Perpetrators With Victims' Families
MBYO, RWANDA - APRIL 06: Fredrik Kazibwemo (L), 45, visits with neighbors Leonae Mugirwanake and her daughter Caline Nijogisubizo, 3, at a genocide 'reconciliation village' April 6, 2014 in Mybo, Rwanda. Fredrik served eight years in prison for killing nine people during the country's 1994 genocide. After moving to Mbyo, Fredrik said he was surprised when a neighbor who survived the killing offered to help pay his childrens' school fees, beginning a cycle of friendship. Organized by the Prison Fellowship Rwanda in 2004, this village of 285 is where those who served time in prison for genocide now live side-by-side with people who survived the killer's 1994 rampage. One of five communities like this in Rwanda, Mbyo residents share agriculture and handicraft cooperatives and say that working together has helped with reconciliation, easing their apprehension and fostering new friendships. Rwanda is preparing to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the country's 1994 genocide, when more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutus were slaughtered over a 100 day period. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
MBYO, RWANDA - APRIL 06: Fredrik Kazibwemo (L), 45, visits with neighbors Leonae Mugirwanake and her daughter Caline Nijogisubizo, 3, at a genocide 'reconciliation village' April 6, 2014 in Mybo, Rwanda. Fredrik served eight years in prison for killing nine people during the country's 1994 genocide. After moving to Mbyo, Fredrik said he was surprised when a neighbor who survived the killing offered to help pay his childrens' school fees, beginning a cycle of friendship. Organized by the Prison Fellowship Rwanda in 2004, this village of 285 is where those who served time in prison for genocide now live side-by-side with people who survived the killer's 1994 rampage. One of five communities like this in Rwanda, Mbyo residents share agriculture and handicraft cooperatives and say that working together has helped with reconciliation, easing their apprehension and fostering new friendships. Rwanda is preparing to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the country's 1994 genocide, when more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutus were slaughtered over a 100 day period. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Last month, the photographer Pieter Hugo went to southern Rwanda, two decades after nearly a million people were killed during the country’s genocide, and captured a series of unlikely, almost unthinkable tableaus.

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