![]() ![]() ![]() She was adopted because Rwandan property law gives a girl's adoptive parents de facto ownership over her family's land. Twenty years later, she discovers that her parents' killer was the man she calls father. WARNER: His play concerns a baby girl who's adopted by neighbors after her parents are murdered. ![]() HYPPOLITE NTIGURIRWA: I wanted the new generation to keep in their minds that what happened would never happen again. WARNER: Hyppolite has returned to his alma mater, the University of Rwanda in Butare, to direct the theater club in a play he's written for the post-genocide generation. Here, he's leading young actors in a vocal warm-up. In primary school, he took up theater to find a new family in the close-knit community of the acting troupe. GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE: Hyppolite Ntigurirwa was 7 years old when he watched his father killed in front of him in the genocide of 1994. So this period of remembrance is offering a chance for a generation that endured the trauma to speak to a generation that has only heard about. They have no memory of that searing event. Today, more than half of Rwanda's population is under the age of 20. We've been looking, this week, at how that country has changed since then. ![]() Almost a million people were murdered, mostly members of the minority Tutsi population. Twenty years ago, a genocide was carried out in Rwanda. ![]()
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