Felin Gakwaya
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I forgive them completely.
I hold nothing against them.
They can live freely.
Daniel's thoughts here are remarkable, even hard to hear, but not uncommon in Rwanda.
After the genocide, programs encouraging reconciliation between communities were set up all over the country.
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.
Bishop John Ruchahana has been a central figure in Rwanda's reconciliation process.
When a survivor releases that anger, forgives, it's like releasing a pot of acid from your mind, from your brain.
Does it work?
Do you have results?
Yes, it works.
We have men and women who have forgiven the perpetrators, and they live together.
And actually, if you have a chance to visit your king in the UK, you can ask him.
We visited our villages, our reconciliation villages, where perpetrators live.
And the survivors of the genocide and the repatriated people from Congo and elsewhere live together in the same village.
Is it hard to get to this?
Let me tell you.
You can imagine and talk about.
It's to understand the agony, the pain, the loss of all the family members.
And some of our people in Rwanda have lost their fathers and mothers and they are alone in this world.