Soap opera helps heal post-genocide wounds in Rwanda

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Soap opera helps heal post-genocide wounds in Rwanda

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/soap-opera-helps-heal-post-genocide-wounds-rwanda-050528220.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/a2RLz9V3BwndGjBcLReA_g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/3c786c6b678f813c6ff0cab321c248d8a65f9c3d.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="An actor reads his part during the recording of an episode of the soap opera 'Musekeweya', in Kigali, on September 29, 2013" align="left" title="An actor reads his part during the recording of an episode of the soap opera 'Musekeweya', in Kigali, on September 29, 2013" border="0" /></a>Twice a week and for half an hour, everything stops on the hillsides of Rwanda as people huddle around a radio and listen to a soap opera that aims to help heal the wounds left by the genocide. The idea behind &quot;Musekeweya&quot;, or the New Dawn, is to do the opposite of what the notorious Radio Libre des Mille Collines did 20 years ago as it stoked ethnic hatred during the genocide carried out by Hutu extremists. Radio Mille Collines played a major role in the planning and carrying out of the genocide, which, in the space of 100 days starting on April 7, 1994, saw an estimated 800,000 people, essentially minority Tutsis, hacked to death by Hutu extremists. The soap opera recounts the day-to-day life of the residents of two fictional villages, Bumanzi and Muhumuro, who, after years of conflict stoked by the authorities, are trying to heal their wounds and mend fences.</p><br clear="all"/>

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