Thank you.
I want to come back to the children of rape issue.
You were talking about the process of reconciliation. The exploration that I'm interested in is not so much about reconciliation but about self-healing within the community. I grew up with and adhere to the belief that forgiveness begins at home. If we can't forgive ourselves, then it's hard to forgive somebody else.
That process of reconciliation is not between Hutu and Tutsi. It is between mother and child, this child who was born and who has lived 20 years now with people looking at him or her with hate, with rejection, with disgust. A previous witness testified that a significant number of these children as well as orphans are stuck in a cycle of substance abuse or prostitution. Both of these things are rooted in a lack of self-value, a lack of connection to any foundation. This is why I feel it's important that we take a look at this, to learn from our past mistakes.
Forgive me if I'm misinterpreting this, but there seems to be a sort of an acceptance that these people are who they are, and that's that. What kind of effort is being made to push and to have these children become part of the rebuilding of the community, as opposed to unintentionally losing children of that generation and having them simply disappear because they don't fall into a particular category?