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Award for Rwanda justice film

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Fifteen years ago this June, the genocide in Rwanda, in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu militias, was drawing to a close.

A new film, My Neighbour, My Killer, has attempted to document the community-based justice system that was put in place to bring about reconciliation between the killers and the surviving relatives of those they slaughtered.

Its director has just won a top award from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, as Talking Movies' Tom Brook reports.

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