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Felin Gakwaya

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
336 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

I forgive them completely.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

I hold nothing against them.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

They can live freely.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

Daniel's thoughts here are remarkable, even hard to hear, but not uncommon in Rwanda.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

After the genocide, programs encouraging reconciliation between communities were set up all over the country.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

Remorseful perpetrators and survivors were encouraged to live among one another and gachata courts were set up to administer community justice at the local level.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

Bishop John Ruchahana has been a central figure in Rwanda's reconciliation process.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

When a survivor releases that anger, forgives, it's like releasing a pot of acid from your mind, from your brain.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

Does it work?

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

Do you have results?

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

Yes, it works.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

We have men and women who have forgiven the perpetrators, and they live together.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

And actually, if you have a chance to visit your king in the UK, you can ask him.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

We visited our villages, our reconciliation villages, where perpetrators live.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

And the survivors of the genocide and the repatriated people from Congo and elsewhere live together in the same village.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

Is it hard to get to this?

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

Let me tell you.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

You can imagine and talk about.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

It's to understand the agony, the pain, the loss of all the family members.

The Documentary Podcast
Befriending the man who killed my family

And some of our people in Rwanda have lost their fathers and mothers and they are alone in this world.