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The Power of Reconciliation

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In the decade since the genocide of 1994, the Rwandan government has masterfully exploited the guilt of the international community for increased foreign aid. But the genocide has also been used as a political club in the domestic arena, where it has often been wielded against the country's nascent media. The government's heavy-handed attempts to control genocide discourse have turned progressive policies aimed at overcoming the divisiveness of the past into repressive ones. Reporter Michael Kavanagh recently returned from Rwanda, and filed this report.

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