Award for Rwanda justice film

Fifteen years ago this June, the genocide in Rwanda, in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu militias, was drawing to a close.A new film, My Neighbour, My Killer, has attempted to document the community-based justice system that was put in place to bring about reconciliation between the killers and the surviving relatives of those they slaughtered.Its director has just won a top award from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, as Talking Movies' Tom Brook reports.

BBC | June 23, 2009

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