The filmed trials are exposed in Kigali

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At the IRiBA center in Kigali, the exhibition “Filming the trials” is translated and adapted for the Rwandan public.

© Valérie Nivelon/RFI

By: Valerie Nivelon

2 mins

Trials filmed for history teach us about crimes against humanity, from the Nuremberg trials to the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Initially exhibited at the National Archives in Paris, these audiovisual archives of justice are shown in Kigali where the post-genocide generation questions the ideology of hatred and the open denial of the accused.

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Hosted since January 27, 2022 by the Iriba Center, the exhibition has been translated into Kinyarwanda and enriched with filmed archives of the Gacaca, extracted from the 350 hours of images shot by the director Anne Aghion, co-founder of the Iriba center with Assumpta Mugiranesa .

A documentary by Valérie Nivelon, directed by Sophie Janin.

Many thanks to the Iriba Center and its entire team, as well as to all those who agreed to take part in the filming of this documentary.

Special thanks to Cédric Kalimunda for offering us his composition “Let’s fight against hate”, here are the lyrics:

(Original version)

TURWANYE URWANGO

  • Izo nzika nizicike,

    • Duce ukubiri n'amacakubiri,

    Twese uko turi.

    R/  

    Turwanye urwango,

           Twimike urukundo.

  • Roar ajya kuturema,

    • Yaturemye twese tungana,

    Turi abatangana.

  • Dutotezwa n'ingirwamategeko,

    • Yatanzwe na mwenemuntu,

    Atari mwenimana.

  • Hacike impaka zurudaca,

    • Zishakashaka inkomoko,

    Mu nyokomuntu.

  • Gutsimbarara ku bwoko,

    • Nibyo birema irondakoko,

    N'intonganya.

    (French translation)

    FIGHT AGAINST HATE

  • May recriminations and resentments be uprooted irremediably,

    • May we end all forms of discrimination,

    Let us all take part in it.

    R/ Let's fight against hate,

          Let love reign.

  • The Creator created us all with equity,

    • Registering in our equality, that nothing ever comes to separate us.

  • Persecuted we were, in the name of unfair laws,

    • Instigated by a mere human

    Banishing his divine dimension.

  • Let these relentless debates cease,

    • Which come to prescribe the difference, within a single and unique origin:

    Human hope. 

  • Clinging to the idea of ​​racial belonging,

    • Alienates us to the shameful "racial theories" of a hated era,

    Source of clashes.

    Song Composed by Cédric Kalimunda,

    Memoir of the Shoah,

    January 27, 2021.

    The booklet of the exhibition presented in Paris designed by Martine Sin Blima-Barru and Christian Delage

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    Sylvie Humbert, HDR Professor of Legal History, looks back on her trip to Kigali.

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