Didas Kayinamura (left) and Rachel Mukantabana (proper) speak in regards to the legacy of the Rwandan genocide thirty years later.

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Didas Kayinamura (left) and Rachel Mukantabana (proper) speak in regards to the legacy of the Rwandan genocide thirty years later.

Jacques Nkinzingabo/NPR

Many of us haven’t got the chance to handpick our neighbors. We purchase or hire a spot in a neighborhood with good colleges or a simple commute.

Some of us grow to be associates with those that reside close by, others of us by no means speak to our neighbors in any respect. For most although, we co-exist.

In the midst of a brutal civil battle, neighbors killed their neighbors merely due to who they have been.

Thirty years in the past this month, that wasn’t the case in Rwanda.

We go to a Rwandan village the place how neighbors reside alongside each other is deliberate, and sophisticated.

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This episode was produced by Matt Ozug and Brianna Scott. It was edited by Tinbete Ermyas and Courtney Dorning. Our government producer is Sami Yenigun.