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Over 800,000 people were killed during the genocide, and over 2 million people fled the country. Massive loss of lives and population affected the economy because so many jobs went left unmanned. This has slowed the rebuilding of infrastructure, schools, buildings, hospitals, and communications and transportation services, all of which need to be rebuilt. Also, over 1 million children were left orphaned. Today, many of these children are heads of households.
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Explanation:
It has been difficult for Rwandans to recover from the genocide because of the brutality of the violence and how difficult it is to forgive neighbors who acted against the Tutsi minority.
The genocide in Rwanda began in April 1994 and neighbors began to turn on neighbors and unspeakable levels of violent acts were carried out. The U.N. estimates that 800,000 Rwandans died at the hands of other citizens in a state-led genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group. Afterward, the recovery has been difficult given how the violence was orchestrated within actual communities and among neighbors, not just at the level of an army or militia. Therefore, NGOs that have worked on the reconciliation process developed models to help with psychological healing, where they encouraged Rwandans to participate in programs where they shared intense memories and were taught some tools to handle the painful emotions they were experiencing. Gacaca for example is a community court system that government authorities and NGOs are promoting as a means that is traditionally familiar to help rebuild the social fabric of Rwandan society. Survivors can learn the truth about what happened to their loved ones and the guilty can confess what they did and hope for some level of forgiveness.
