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| By: Associated Press |
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Rwandan educators wandered the halls of Israel's Holocaust memorial and spoke with elderly survivors of the Nazi slaughter, hoping to learn how to cope with and memorialize their own genocide, which ravaged their east African nation 11 years ago.
The Tutsi survivors said that despite the cultural distance, they found kindred spirits during their weeklong seminar at the Yad Vashem memorial that ended Monday.
"Through them we have learned how to go beyond the consequences of genocide, how to survive and come back to life," Freddy Mutanguha said Monday.
More than half a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by the Hutu militia during the 100-day massacre in 1994 orchestrated by the extremist Hutu government then in power. The genocide ended when Tutsi rebels toppled the Hutu government.
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Rwandans turn to Holocaust survivors to help commemorate, cope with genocide
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11.8.2005
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