Well, maybe I was a bit harsh. They have their memorials every year and the line is, “We're all Rwandans.” There's no.... Everybody repeats that by rote, but there are still these divisions because certain things haven't been dealt with. There are many Hutus who were killed but had not participated in the genocide; they feel that they suffered as well, but they're not allowed to suffer. I mean, the names Hutu and Tutsi are very loaded. If you're Tutsi, you were a victim; if you're Hutu, you were the génocidaire.
They don't want to talk about that, and any kind of talk that brings up these divisions is against the law. There are people in jail for talking like this, so when you talk about it, you have to do it in very hushed tones. They're very uncomfortable, although there's one MP I interviewed who is great. He started this reconciliation road show. He's only 30. He goes around and he gets young Hutus and Tutsis together to talk about what's happening. Because he's an elected minister, he's able to get away with this. He's sort of like the youth minister. So things seem to be opening up a bit. It really is the elephant in the room. If they don't address it, I think it's going to explode again. There's still a lot of resentment and anger.
It's not so much that they just want to put the past behind them, but Kagame and so on...as you may know, he likes to get rid of any kind of dissent, unfortunately. He just wants to forge ahead and get away from the country being identified as the country where there was the genocide.