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Rwanda is regarded as a miracle today.

This East African country is hardly a dot on the map anymore sharing a history of colonization and war, with so many other countries.

The spectacular recovery from the genocide of the Tutsis in 1994, is not just a page-turner in their history but an inspiring example to the rest of the world of what can be achieved and what is truly possible when a commitment and pledge is made by the survivors to restore hope, economic prosperity, and sustainable peaceful co-existence.

No other country in the world today has a large number of perpetrators of the genocide living in such close proximity to the victim's families.

In this episode, we remember the victims and pay tribute to the resilience and strength of the survivors. Meet Freddy Mutanguha, a survivor of the genocide who lost both parents, four sisters, and 80 members of his family at the hands of the Interahamwe, Hutu extremists who mobilised quickly after the assassination of Rwandan President Juvenal Habriyamana. The Interahamwe showed no mercy and went on a mass killing spree to wipe out the Tutsis.

"The moments Rwandans chose the road of reconciliation the survivors and people in the country started the healing process. That was really the starting point. The moment we chose reconciliation and peace is the moment that economic growth started. So when you make the right choice you are going in the right direction. What I realized as well is that people who make the choice to hate and to commit genocide, I have never seen any genocide that doesn't have survivors, that means you are a failure because you did not succeed to wipe out a whole ethnic group, that means you are a failure to yourself. And the consequences are equal or even bigger than what you caused. Both sides suffer from the consequences of what you just did and they suffer from the bad choice that you made of hate.

But I have never seen any consequences and bad consequences of making the choice for peace. You may not see it, you may make great sacrifices for peace to go beyond your emotions and feelings, but you are sure that the next generations will enjoy it! This is really the best way of putting it Making the choice for peace is making a choice for all generations to come." Freddy Mutanguha, Survivor, Kigali Genocide Memorial.

Give Peace A Chance Episode 20