Jina Moore:

Fifteen years after Rwandan Hutu massacred hundreds of thousands of their Tutsi countrymen, one survivor and the man who cut off her hand tell the horrible truth about the genocide and explain how, even with so much suffering between them, they eventually made peace.

Freeman Dyson from the archive:

In my opinion, the moral imperative at the end of every war is reconciliation. Without reconciliation there can be no real peace.

See also, Evil has ruined my life, an excellent Reading in the March 2009 issue of Harper's:

From recent interviews with survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide, by Jean Hatzfeld, in the Fall issue of The Paris Review. In 1994, Hutu attacks on Tutsis and moderate Hutus killed 800,000. Since 2003, the Rwandan government has released more than 50,000 prisoners accused of involvement in the killings. Hatzfeld’s new book about Rwanda, The Antelope’s Strategy, will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. Hatzfeld’s “Machete Season” appeared in the April 2005 issue of Harper’s Magazine.