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Things weren't exactly what I planned when I was there so I was trying to get a plane ticket out of there. This is the place that offers you the cheapest price. They don't really care much about customers...perhaps because of the fact that they have loads of them. But if you want a good price, bare with them.
It's at Ave du Commerce, opposite site of Western Union. It's on the second floor.
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 by thelittlevoice
A postcard can be sent for RFr150(I only sent a bunch to Europe and Asia so I don't know if the price is also the same for other parts of the world or not).
Open from 8am to 5pm on weekdays and 8am to 12pm on Sat.
Cross the street from ORTPN, walk pass Shell gas station. Leave a Comment
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 by husain
He had been in jail for 9 years, and had been freed recently, by the Gacaca court, and was doing his bit of community service now.
We wanted to interview him on camera and he agreed...
Eddie recounted, in great detail, his experiences during the killings and his own actions. Pretty brutal and spine chilling stuff...
He described how he had hated the Tutsis, how he killed his neighbours wife, and how he and his fellow Hutus used to compete in killing Tutsis. The fewer the blows needed to kill, the more committed you were to the cause. Heavier clubs with nails were therefore the prefered weapon of choice. He killed 16 Tutsis that he could remember out of which 3 or 4 he killed single handedly.
Today Eddie walks free, though he says its with a heavy conscience. The Gacaca courts had set him free and the husband of his neighbour that he'd killed, had forgiven him too... Leave a Comment
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 by thelittlevoice
This tourist office is just around the corner from the post office. Leave a Comment
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I forget her name... But hers was a typically sordid tale among many of the survivors. Perhaps hers was a little worse than the others though.
After seeing every single member of her family being butchered at the hands of the attackers, she spent three months in captivity, held by the Hutu 'interhamwe' militia. She was regularly assaulted and raped thru that time.
At the end of the ordeal, when she was eventually free, she realised that she was pregnant. Also, she was suspected of being HIV positive. She eventually bore a son, the only family she has now. The child to her, was also a cruel reminder of the terrible events from the past. She loved him and hated him... Admitted that she sometimes vents her angusih on the child, who had just turned ten. Leave a Comment
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Kigali's central prison or Gikondo Prison, built in the 1930's, was only meant to house a few thousand inmates.
After the genocide, the numbers swelled to well above 50,000. Most of the inmates are accused of savage acts of genocide and refered to as genocidaires. They wait here for their trails to come up before the Gacaca courts.
The bright pink dresses mark out the prisoners. Every afternoon, there are some who get to step out and meet waiting members of their families outside. As soon as times is up for one lot, the next one is brought out.
The time we were shooting there, we were told that no pictures could be taken. Definately none from the outside (the one here has been snapped by hiding my camera behind my producers back).
We were there to shoot the prison fellowships activities inside the prison. Leave a Comment
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 by cosmopolit
Rushour early in the mornings when the roads and markets start getting busy with all that hustle bustle. Leave a Comment
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There are so many things that I could put here. A trip around the busy market is a must where you can buy everything from Green Bananas to bits of material etc. But the most beautiful place to be has to be Gisenyi or Kibuye on the shore of Lake Kivu. Stunning !
The best thing I have done in Rwanda is to go to Lake Muhazi and skinny dip ! Very nice, although a little bit cold. I was camping right opposite where the President keeps his cows !! Leave a Comment
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Go to the Parc National de Vulcans.
It was here that we hiked through the mountainous jungle to see the gorillas. It was exhausting but exillerating. After bush bashing for so long you suddenly enter a clearing and see a few gorillas. As your eyes adjust to the dark under the canopy you realise there are 6 in front of you..and 6 more behind you. They just eat there way past you. The young ones come very close to look at you which is great, you just hope mum realizes we mean no harm. We then saw the silverback, who ripped out a small tree, broke it in half and threw the 2 pieces at us. He was trying to show who was boss....he was successful!
Hitchiking in Rwanda was easy. I travelled on the back of trucks, up front on a truck (luxury)and I just stopped and ate with the locals. You do get a little sick of goat, but the sugar cane was a real treat. Leave a Comment
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Resorts on Lac Kivu in Gisenyi, Kibuye or Cyangugu
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