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Reconciliation: The killers and survivors condemned to live together

By Barney Jopson

Published: September 22 2009 00:49 | Last updated: September 22 2009 00:49

Like every Tutsi survivor of the genocide, Eric Rutaganda lives with the events of 1994 every day, whether or not he is thinking about them, because they have shaped who he is and where he lives, who he cares for and who he misses.

Aged 25, he still has the round face of the 10-year-old boy he was when he and his older brother Faustin saw their parents and two sisters slaughtered during the 100-day massacre. They first went to live with an aunt, but eventually left to become two of the 97 survivors living at a purpose-built settlement of concrete terraces in the town of Ntarama where every head of household is a child.

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