A former ‘big man’ deserts his Congo-based militia after learning more about the country he left.
Kigali, Rwanda – On a cool February afternoon, Jean Damasceau Mwambutsya and a few friends – one in a UN peacekeeping baseball hat – lounged in the grass at Mutobo. They’d returned to Rwanda in November and were in the middle of ingando – reeducation camp. “We’re learning how to conduct ourselves once we get out of here,” he says. “We’re learning how to live with other people and relate to them.” He and his friends are less interested in lessons than in finally seeing their families. They left Rwanda in 1994, the year of the genocide, and haven’t seen their parents or siblings – sometimes their wives – since.
Ex-Combatants Return to a Changed Rwanda
