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A (non-Christmas) first draft edit of a journey through Rwanda. Can be good for genocide anniversary hooks (April 1994)
Transcript
Rwanda’s Ghosts 090218
Jake Warga
[Host Intro] Rwanda has come a long way in healing since the Genocide in 1994…but as independent producer Jake Warga (War-Guh) tells us, you can’t ignore ghosts. He visited the East African country recently and brings us this story.
[Harriett] (Can you describe, for the tape, what you’re seeing?) What I’m seeing, these are skulls,
[JW] This is my translator, Harriett, it’s just her and I in a crypt under the Nyamata church near the capital Kigali, where in 1994, 10,000 people took refuge from the genocide. They were all killed above us in a single day and now we’re looking at their skulls, or they’re looking at us.
[music]
[Harriett] and um, Oh My God, this is unspeakable, I don’t know what to say now. this should have never been for heaven sakes
[JW] You can’t miss the ghosts in modern-day Rwanda—they line every road, wander through every villa...
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