For as long as i can remember, ive wanted to go back home. Home to the place where i was born. A home i hadnt seen in 30 years. Its also 30 years since the genocide, which killed about 800,000 people. I was one of the lucky ones. My family and i got away, but many didnt. Now im returning to my home country to trace back my escape route when i was just 12 years old. Theres no sound that fills me with so much joy as the sound of children in a classroom. As i am reunited with my family, i also want to uncover the countrys journey to healing and reconciliation. This is one of the groups that carsa has, made by Genocide Survivors and the genocide former perpetrators. And ill be hearing from those who had a role in the killings and their survivors. Translation to me, he was not only a murderer, but a monster. Beeps. Im Victoria Uwonkunda and im a reporterfor the bbc. Hello and welcome to newsday, here on the Bbc World Service with Victoria Uwonkunda. I was born in rwanda, but ive lived most
For as long as i can remember, ive wanted to go back home. Home to the place where i was born. A home i hadnt seen in 30 years. Its also 30 years since the genocide, which killed about 800,000 people. I was one of the lucky ones. My family and i got away, but many didnt. Now im returning to my home country to trace back my escape route when i was just 12 years old. Theres no sound that fills me with so much joy as the sound of children in a classroom. As i am reunited with my family, i also want to uncover the countrys journey to healing and reconciliation. This is one of the groups that carsa has, made by Genocide Survivors and the genocide former perpetrators. And ill be hearing from those who had a role in the killings and their survivors. Translation to me, he was not only a murderer, but a monster. Beeps. Im Victoria Uwonkunda and im a reporterfor the bbc. Hello and welcome to newsday, here on the Bbc World Service with Victoria Uwonkunda. I was born in rwanda, but ive lived most
0ver six months, gaza has been ravaged by war, disease, death and now imminent famine, caused by israels siege. The un calls it a betrayal of humanity. Kibbutz nir oz, right on israels border with gaza, feels like a time capsule stuck in the horrors of the 7th of october. Hamas broke in at dawn. They killed and took Hostage A Quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived here. Sayed was laying there dead. You could see that he was trying to hold the door closed and actually the door was locked. The army opened the door later. Ron and his family survived in their safe room. Then he recovered dead friends and neighbours, some in pieces. In this house, you know, that was the first time that we realised that we are not looking for only bodies, because the beginning, you know, we took a lot of bodies. The interrupted, terminated lives laundry neatly folded the night before the attack give israelis a sense of moral clarity. Going around this place, you can understand why israelis believe very
For as long as i can remember, ive wanted to go back home. Home to the place where i was born. A home i hadnt seen in 30 years. Its also 30 years since the genocide, which killed about 800,000 people. I was one of the lucky ones. My family and i got away, but many didnt. Now im returning to my home country to trace back my escape route when i was just 12 years old. Theres no sound that fills me with so much joy as the sound of children in a classroom. As i am reunited with my family, i also want to uncover the countrys journey to healing and reconciliation. This is one of the groups that carsa has, made by Genocide Survivors and the genocide former perpetrators. And ill be hearing from those who had a role in the killings and their survivors. Translation to me, he was not only a murderer, but a monster. Beeps. Im Victoria Uwonkunda and im a reporterfor the bbc. Hello and welcome to newsday, here on the Bbc World Service with Victoria Uwonkunda. I was born in rwanda, but ive lived most
Mr netanyahu says that they will go back and they will do that Military Operation in rafa, where1. 4 million Palestinian Civilians are sheltering. That is something that The Americans do not want them to do. Benjamin netanyahu has been saying they are one step away from victory. There are lots of israelis who say that is absolutely untrue, that he has not, quite patently he has not, succeeded in the war aims that he stated. Getting the hostages back and eliminating hamas as a force in gaza, because they are still able to fight. And his critics also say that he is prolonging the war artificially for his own political reasons to escape a day of reckoning for mistakes that he may have made. On both sides, six months on, is a very significant milestone. A lot of people did not think this war would last this long, but i think it might even last a lot longer. I have been to one of the Israeli Border communities which was kibbutz nir oz, which was probably among the worst hit on that day six