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KILLERS AMONG US ” Rwanda’s Cry for Justice “

A film by Eric Kabera

Killers among us is a sensitive and timely documentary which will explore the lives of the runaway genocidaires from Rwanda and the lives of the living and the lifeless they left behind while they hideaway and lounge in luxury in various host countries around the world.
Eric Kabera’s poignant and moving story of the killers among us reveals through interviews and archival visual images of the1994 genocide in Rwanda, the need to bring to book the masterminds of the genocide who are now scattered in the four corners of the worlds.
Today's Rwanda has survived its "100 Days" of genocide and guards its
"Keepers of Memory," but now must show the world community, "The
Killers among Us: Rwanda's Cry for Justice."

I am a Rwandan filmmaker, who produced the first feature film on the Rwandan genocide"100 Days" and "Keepers of Memory," an award winning documentary film that pays tribute to the keepers of memorials, described by many as a deeply moving look at the 1994 Rwandan genocide, its survivors, and the memories created in the victims' honor.

On this new film project. Titled Killers Among "Cry for Justice," I once again in a new light give voice to survivors of rape and widows of massacres who echo a deep feeling in Rwanda: Arrest the genocide leaders living free in America and Europe. Their organizing threatens us; their freedom haunts us. Send them home for trial before we face a renewed cycle of violence. This is the overall message sent by the victims to the world community.

I traveled to the southern African nation of Zambia, once a refuge
for top genocide criminals hiding from Rwanda. we retrace a police
story of how death threats to HIV researchers in Zambia led to the
first world war-crimes trials since the Nazis at Nuremberg and the
First-ever conviction for the crime of genocide.

As the world watched in 1994, Rwanda's government, army, and police
turned on its own people, first assassinating the liberal opposition
and then directing the majority Hutus to slaughter their minority
Tutsi neighbors. This systematic public-works project of genocide used
Machettes and grenades, yet it outpaced the trains and gas chambers of
The Nazi Holocaust. It killed half a million in the first month,
Nearly a million before the government's defeat by a rebel army, and
Forced an evacuation of two million refugees.

Now, the world looks away from Rwanda again. The United Nations plans
to stop investigating genocide criminals this year and close its court
next year.

This film contrasts the cost of doing nothing with Zambia's success--a story of African nations stopping violence, working together, and serving justice.

I speak with Rwanda's lead prosecutor, Martin Ngoga, who has humankind's biggest criminal caseload, more than 100,000 men with bloody hands, yet he seeks 93 more who live abroad. Rwanda wants these men so badly, Ngoga says, Rwanda will set aside its death penalty. >>>> continue right...

I try to express the scope of Rwanda's tragedy by focusing on the experiences of the nurses and doctors of an HIV clinic, Project San
Francisco, which lost half its staff of 70 in the 1994 genocide.

 "My whole family died," Dr. Etienne Karita, director of Project San
Francisco's HIV clinic.
"Everyone who told me their name was on the list died," Dr. Susan

Allen, PSF's founder.
"Everyone I knew in this country died," Ruth Mukasahaha, a PSF nurse.
"What happened in Rwanda is simply evil."

In "The Killers among Us: Rwanda's Cry for Justice" I give a voice
To survivors of rape and widows of massacres who echo a deep feeling: Arrest the genocide leaders living free in America and Europe. Their organizing threatens us; their freedom haunts us. Send them home for trial before we face a renewed cycle of violence.

If Zambia can succeed like this, as I hears from human-rights activists, then so can European and American law officials.

This film features the first-ever interview with Nick Hughes, the only journalist to catch the genocide live on tape.