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Fifteen years after the genocide, Rwandan combatants slowly join civil society

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published June 12, 2009.

This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. The central African country has experienced several periods of political violence since then, which have been fueled by poverty and ethnic tensions. FSRN's Tanya Castle spoke to former combatants who are now leaving the cycle of violence behind.