(Man) How is she?
Father, where are my boys?
- Where are they? - (Woman) We found you at the doorstep.
You were alone.
I have to go to find my children.
I can't stay here. I have to look for them.
- Mathilde, you have to help me please. - Of course.
Where did you last leave them?
Oh, my God.
I don't know.
My babies.
What happened to my babies?
I have scrutinized the words and listened to the radio tapes.
It is true that my client here admits his moral guilt.
But where is freedom of the press, or freedom of expression?
He was a journalist, a man of letters, an intellectual.
Did anybody actually see my client butchering people?
The prosecutor talks of criminal conspiracy.
This is not Nuremberg, Madam Prosecutor.
Is he a criminal because he stood on a political principle?
Where is the blood on my client's hands?
Can you play soccer?
- No. - I can teach you.
Hello, Mummy.
- (Martine) So did you see Honoré? - No.
You're not going to.
I don't think I can hear what he has to say to me.
- It's not easy. - You don't understand.
This thing doesn't make sense.
They're all here. Everybody that planned genocide is here. I saw Bagosora here.
They get full meals, they get AZT medicine, while rape victims are dying of AIDS.
- It's like a fucking health club. - I guess the killers are the stars of the show.
- Is this what this is? A show? A big show? - We need the tribunals.
I know they have their shortcomings, but it's a way to move on.
It's a way for everybody to wash their hands,
so nobody has to feel bad, so we can pretend there was justice.
Where is our dignity?
So how are we going to move forward?
I'm fighting, too, Augustin.
I keep seeing Anne-Marie's face
and the faces of all my girls.
What is it that you want me to do?
- Am I alone in this? - No, you're not alone, Martine.
I'm trying. I'm here and I'm trying.
Augustin...
I got the results.
It's a boy.
(Girls singing in background)
Does anybody recognize this man? His name is Ndizeye Celestin.
He is accused of killing five farmers
and participating in the killing of 15 other people.
Those who can testify, please stand up.
I know this man.
He came through my yard, pushing two of the victims.
A woman named Madeleine Mukasano
and a man named Dieudonné.
When he arrived at my neighbor's house...
that man over there hit Dieudonné
with a machete and then cut Madeleine's feet off.
I saw it with my own eyes.
I speak the truth.
(Girl) Why don't you come in?
The girls are here.
(Giggling)
- They're waiting for you. - No. I can't.
(Girl) Why don't you come?
What's wrong with you?
- Come! - No.
Those cockroaches can't hurt us! We'll hunt them down wherever they are!
(Singing and whooping)
(Screaming)
Run to that dormitory. Quickly! Run! Run, girls!
(Screaming)
Bring all those cockroaches here!
I'll take them to the music room.
Quickly, girls, quickly!
Inside.
Everybody out!
OK, girls, listen to me.
Come, listen.
They are going to ask you for your identity cards.
They want to separate us.
They want all Tutsis to come out.
I can't do this.
I'll go, mistress.
If Isa goes...
- I'll go. - I'll go.
I'll go.
We're sisters.
We're staying together.
There are more over there.
Please do something. They're killing everybody.
We stay together...
We are sisters... We stay together.
Shh.
(Explosion)
Do you understand the choices that you are making?
Do you understand?
(Screaming)
Somebody help us!
Hutus here, Tutsis there.
Hutu girls behind me. All Inyenzis over there.
Now!
I will not say it again.
We're staying together.
Please.
Think of them as your own daughters, please.
My daughter is not a cockroach.
Mistress. Mistress.
(Girls scream)
(Man) These are the sat photos from Kigali.
You can see here and here.
We have clear evidence of mass killing.
These are freshly dug mass graves.
At this point, honestly, our list of possible actions is pretty short.
But if we can adequately back up the remaining 400 UN troops,
we can probably save some lives.
We're not going to put in any of our soldiers. There's no political will.
Look, at the rate we've been arguing this, there won't be anybody left to save.
That's fine for you to say, but it's not Mogadishu.
Everyone here knows it's not Mogadishu.
But up on the Hill, Somalia's written all over it.
So we're talking in circles here. If we can't get any additional UN support
- then we need some fresh ideas. - I'm on it.
What's happening with jamming Radio RTLM?
- We checked, too expensive. - Oh, come on.
Our lawyers say it's against international laws to jam radios.
Something about freedom of the press, freedom of speech.
Yes, it's against the law to jam radios but not to exhort massive slaughter.
Come on, we are talking about hate radio here.
Let's not lose our perspective. Radios don't kill people.
People kill people.
(Man talking on radio in background)
(Radio) We will win the war anyway.
We are the majority.
Wherever you are, join the battle.
Come to Kigali. That's where the roaches are still hiding.
(Whistle blowing)
(Dog barking)
I'm going to work.
Anne-Marie, wake up.
Anne-Marie, it's over. Wake up.
Wake up. We have to leave.
Anne-Marie.
(Sobs) Anne-Marie.
Anne-Marie.
(Radio) Your beloved radio tells you the truth.
Trust us, we're making it happen.
We're the truth with capital T. We always told you the truth.
We told you since the beginning
that those Inyenzis will never be able to take Kigali.
Victorine. Victorine, come on! Come on!
Wake up.
Wake up. Wake up, please.
(Martine) Oh, dear God.
Oh, dear God. Oh, dear God.
Sss. Sss.
Quick!
Come here.
(Whispers) Wake up.
Anne-Marie.
One more time.
Just a little bit.
One last step. Let's go.
One last step.
Please help us.
Help her.
(Radio) Rwanda will always be ours.
Let's sing together.
"Let's rejoice, dear friends, let's rejoice.
"All is over now and God is just."
You can stay here until it gets dark.
We have to finish them if we want our children
and our children's children to live in peace.
We must finish our work.
Communal administrators, please be vigilant. Don't leave dead bodies in the street.
Fax this to the White House, and don't forget to save comments and copies for the UN.
OK.
- Any news? - I'm very sorry, Augustin. No news.
Nobody has seen Jeanne or the children. We have been trying.
And we'll keep trying.
(Sobs)
Calm down. Don't be afraid.
Alphonse Virgina!
Virgina, are you here?
Don't worry.
Robingo. Where is he?
Robingo, come on out!
You should get some rest.
I'm fine, Father Salomon. I'm fine.
Robingo, Mathieu, you can come out!
Soldier, take him out.
Out.
Hokum.
Get out!
- Who is this man? - He's Hutu.
He's just a foolish taxi driver. He got hurt trying to protect some Tutsi traitor in his car.
But he is Hutu.
And I need a better list.
- I'll work on it. - I'll need more names.
- And I need them by tomorrow, understand? - Yes, Officer.
(Church bell ringing)
You still can't remember?
A big black hole.
I barely remember...
roadblocks.
Militias.
I can see Honoré, their uncle.
Marcus was at the back of the car.
And?
Nothing.
Pain.
(Machine-gun fire)
Anne-Marie.
You can't stay. You're not safe here.
I understand.
I can't move her.
She's too weak.
My husband and son-in-law are out killing.
If they come, they'll kill you too.
Anne-Marie?
(Sobbing) No.
(Man) What's the difference between acts of genocide and genocide?
Well, I think the...
As you know, there's a... there's a legal definition of this.
There has been a lot of discussion about how the definition...
applies under the definition of genocide contained in the 1948 Convention.
If you are looking at that as for your determination about genocide,
clearly, not all of the killings that have taken place in Rwanda
are killings to which you might apply that label.
But as to the distinctions between the words,
we're trying to call what we have seen so far, as best as we can,
and based, again, on the evidence,
we have every reason to believe that acts of genocide have occurred.
(Man) How many acts of genocide does it take to make genocide?
That's not a question that I'm in a position to answer.
(Man) What is an act of genocide, Christine?
As defined in the 1948 Genocide Convention,
"The crime of genocide occurs when certain acts are committed
"against members of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group
"with the intent of destroying that group in whole or in part.
"The relevant acts include killing,
"causing serious bodily or mental harm,
"and deliberately inflicting conditions of life
"calculated to bring about physical destruction of the group."
(Man) Wait a minute, you said genocide...
- That is the definition in the Convention. - Of genocide.
OK, so you say genocide happens when certain acts happen,
and you say that these acts have happened in Rwanda.
So why can't you say that genocide has happened?
(Martine) Victorine. Victorine.
- The Lord is my shepherd. - (Victorine repeats prayer after Martine)
I shall not want.
He leadeth me through green pastures
and even as I fear
to walk through the valley of the shadow of death...
Even as I fear... to walk...
through the valley...
of the shadow... of death...
As I fear... Victorine, come.
Even as I fear...
to walk through the valley of the shadow of death...
You people in the swamps!
You can come out!
- (Murmurs) - Shh.
We are the RPF!
You people in the swamps!
Don't be afraid!
(Calls softly in Kinyarwanda)
Come! Come here!
Victorine, come on.
Don't be afraid.
You're a nice boy.
Don't be afraid.
Let me help you.
Take a sip.
Are you there?
Can you hear me?
No.
(Slurring) Did I...
Did I tell you that I have a wife?
Yes. But we...
We're not married. But we live together.
And er...
And she's pregnant.
It's a... It's a boy.
Her name... Her name is Martine.
(Woman) My name is Valentine.
You're a survivor, aren't you?
Yes.
Are you... Are you testifying for the tribunal?
No.
I'm visiting somebody.
Are you testifying?
I'm... I'm a secret witness.
I erm... I testify tomorrow.
Would you...
Would you come?
Yes, but you won't be able to see me.
I'll know that you're there.
(Valentine) The first one...
he took my baby off my back and put it on the floor.
He penetrated me.
He kept me until he had me a second time.
Later, I don't remember exactly but...
the Interahamwes held us in another room.
And they raped all the girls.
A young man threw himself on me.
When he was taking off his pants he told me there is no place for me now.
That the government had abandoned us.
After that, he did humiliating things to me.
He didn't even care that I was a mother.
I heard the young girls scream but I could not see them.
When the second man was finished, a third one came and...
he forced me to lie down again.
He raped me.
At that moment...
I just wanted to die.
Then a fourth man came and...
he took me.
At that moment, I thought, "God in heaven, who are these men?"
I'm sorry.
But can you tell us what happened next?
The next day
the Interahamwes came and they made us come back to that house.
But they had to drag me there like a dead person.
I was dead.
Where was the defendant?
Was he in the Cultural Community Center during this time?
Yes.
I knew that he was the leader of the municipality.
I felt that he could have protected us but...
he did nothing.
Did the defendant personally participate in the rapes?
I never saw him rape anybody.
But... he didn't protect us.
He would tell the Interahamwes,
"Don't ever ask me any more how a Tutsi woman tastes."
He was a coach encouraging his players.
I heard him say, and these were his exact words...
"Tomorrow, they will be killed."
Please, go on.
The next day, on the street, an old woman told me
that all the girls who had been with me had been killed.
She told me I had to leave.
I could barely carry my baby, but I left.
I hid in a sorghum field.
May I ask...
why did you make what must have been a difficult decision
to come to Arusha and testify in this tribunal?
I saw what this man did
and I felt responsible
to testify about this man's betrayal
of the people who were entrusted to him.
When a person leads assassins
he is also an assassin.
(Radio) Rebel units are tightening their grip
on the government stronghold at Gitarama
capturing a key military base at Nyanza, about 40 kilometers south of Gitarama,
and cutting the government's supply routes.
The UN says the main government strongholds in the Rwandan capital, Kigali,
have fallen to the rebel Rwanda Patriotic Front.
No matter what history will say of these unprecedented events,
one must acknowledge that it is the RPF troops
that ultimately stopped the genocide.
Western support has been slow to nonexistent.
The commander of the RPF, General Paul Kagame, has declared a cease-fire.
Speaking in Kigali,
he said the RPF had won the war and now controlled the whole country,
except for the French-patrolled area in the southwest.
He said his forces would try to avoid confrontation.
Hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees flee the advance of the RPF troops.
These refugees have participated in the killing
of a now estimated 800,000 of their countrymen.
The fleeing government forces are using them as a protective shield.
We're calling the operation "Support Hope". General Jack Nix will lead it from Zaire.
We have army units on the ground distributing water.
- We have a half a million tents. - On the political side?
The French are trying to save what's left of the old regime.
The UN is in full damage-control mode.
The White House is very pleased with your quick response to the refugee crisis.
Congress is rallying around the flag.
It's too bad the CNN factor didn't kick in a little sooner.
- Anybody else? - Thanks, folks. Thank you, everybody.
Well, I guess that's it.
Prudence, our mission was not to intervene.
The system functioned perfectly.
In a few years, the President will ask for forgiveness,
he'll make the promise of "never again."
But in terms of national interest, we did everything right.
We were loyal to a policy that allowed hundreds of thousands of people to be killed.
As far as moral imperative, we did not do the right thing.
We're bureaucrats, not the political leadership.
- Is it because they're Africans? - Let's not do that, Pru.
It was Rwandans killing Rwandans.
Morning, Papa.
- Good morning. - Where is everyone?
They're all gone, son.
- I am sorry. - You will live with it longer than I.
Sir, where is Sainte-Marie school?
I don't recognize this city any more.
Forget about the school. Forget about everything.
I must find my daughter.
It's not far. Follow the road.
Then turn at the corner.
Some things are better left alone.
(Shouting)
What did you do to my family? Where are the bodies?
Sir, I swear, we don't know.
I'm gonna kill you.
(Gunfire)
(Woman sobs)
- Good morning. - Good morning.
I'm looking for my daughter.
She attended.
Anne-Marie.
Anne-Marie Muganza.
(Both sob)
(Sobs)
Honoré.
Augustin.
- How are you? - I am fine.
I see they are treating you well.
Some say too well.
Brother, it has been a long time.
They say you were in Italy when they arrested you.
Yes. Italy.
Zaire, Angola.
I was on the run for three years before they caught me.
I didn't know if I was going to see you again.
- So why did you come? - Because you asked me to.
Augustin, why are you here? Huh?
Are you going to be like everybody else?
They come in here to parade their good conscience around as if it's a crown.
Look around you. There's no one here to applaud you.
I didn't...
- I didn't accuse you of anything. - I already stand accused.
I'm ready to hear what happened.
- I don't think you're ready for this. - I want to hear it.
I want to hear it.
(Honoré) We managed to get through some of the roadblocks.
I knew the game.
But the military roadblock was another matter.
Yes, sir. Colonel Sotori. This is Honoré Botera.
I'm here at the roadblock on Hospital Road.
No, sir, they won't let me pass.
I tried to negotiate with them.
So I called Colonel Sotori.
He was under a lot of pressure. He said to me,
"I cannot help you," and I would have to go.
And Jeanne and the kids...
would have to go into custody.
When I handed the phone over to the lieutenant
they were speaking a different language.
(Man) Everybody, out!
OK... Lock the doors!
Mum!
Stay down!
Oh... please.
Go! We'll take care of the snakes!
- Guys, stop it. They're just kids. - Mummy.
She's just a woman. You don't need to do this.
It's just a little boy. They're Hutu children. They're ours. They are ours.
Shut up, you whore!
Let the boys go.
You don't have to do this. I'll give you money.
No! Mummy!
(Honoré) Please. Stop it!
(Machine-gun fire)
And Jeanne?
They were so busy burning my car...
that I think they forgot her.
So I pushed her into the ditch to hide her body.
But later that night...
I came back...
when the street was deserted.
(Sobs)
She was still breathing.
Fucking savages. Fucking savages.
The best I could do was a church.
The Sainte-Famille.
I thought she would be safe there.
I called. I knocked. But they wouldn't open.
So I left her there by the gate.
It wasn't until I was in exile that I knew of her fate.
I've got to find Augustin. Maybe he's still at the house.
She learned that you were alive at Hotel Mille Collines
and was desperate to reach you.
After a horrific night they decided to kill all the women.
Do you think I'm afraid to die?
We should do away with them.
She was very brave.
Go!
Jeanne, my dear, please.
Get the grenade!
(Augustin) Yes, it's April again.
Every year in April, the rainy season starts.
Hey, that's enough. You're gonna catch cold.
- Valentine? - Augustin?
I'm glad you exist. I was beginning to think I dreamt you.
I'm very real.
- You leave today? - Yes, tonight. On the late flight.
Thank you.
Goodbye, then.
Goodbye.
Hey, say goodbye to our friend.
(Valentine) Let's go.
Come change your clothes.
(Augustin) And every year, every day in April,
a haunting emptiness descends over our hearts.
Every year in April,
I remember how quickly life ends.
Every year in April,
I remember how lucky I should feel
to be alive.
(Shouting in German)
On April 121994,
my wife Jeanne was killed.
In that same month of April,
my sons Marcus and Yves Andre were also killed.
My friend Xavier was killed in April.
My daughter Anne-Marie was killed sometime later.
But I never asked when.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil,
for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
These men are accused of having participated
in the killing of 120 schoolgirls
at the Sainte-Marie School.
Who recognizes them?
I do.
My name is...
I was there.
I'm a survivor.