Rwandans Guilty of Genocide Forgiven 20 Years After Killings
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Gasto Ufiteumukinza spent 12 years in prison for murdering more than 30 people during the Rwandan genocide. Today, he lives among the families of those he killed, many of whom, he says, have forgiven him.
Ufiteumukinza, 56, owes his freedom to gacaca, a village court system that the government used to prosecute perpetrators of the mass killings. He’s one of thousands of people who have been reintegrated into society after they took part in the killing of at least 800,000 people in the 100-day slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994.