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Rwanda: thirty years after the genocide, how was the State rebuilt?

On Sunday April 7, Rwanda entered three months of commemorations of the Tutsi genocide. Thirty years later, while a new generation is learning to free itself from this trauma, the country has rebuilt itself, developed, by force. It is even often cited as an example for its economic success, even if inequalities remain, and even if the return to order after the chaos of 1994 also had the corollary of a closure of political space.

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Night vigil organized at the BK Arena in Kigali, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, April 7, 2024. © Reuters/Jean Bizimana

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How the State was rebuilt in

Rwanda

? How has Rwandan society recovered and transformed in 30 years? How the shock wave of the Tutsi genocide fueled regional instability, leading to this new ongoing war in the eastern

Democratic Republic of Congo

Special edition presented by Nathalie Amar with reports from our correspondents and analyzes from our guests:

Benjamin Chemouni,

teacher researcher at the University of Louvain, specialist in post-genocide Rwanda 

Louis Gitinywa,

lawyer, researcher in constitutional law

in Kigali

Philippe Dam

, Human Rights Watch advocacy director for the European Union in Brussels

Onesphore Sematumba

, researcher at the International Crisis Group (ICG) based in Goma

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