Now they're home. Rwanda - The hardest thing to kill in this green hilltop village are the memories. Ask Silidio Bagilinshuti. After six years in a Congolese refugee camp and a Rwandan jail, he returned recently to his home in the lush hills where giant dandelions sway gracefully in the wind. His family barely recognized him.
Some neighbors are . . .
People are still saying I led the groups who were killing people. For the last three years, the ethnic Hutu, now 17, has been held without trial in a Rwandan camp for children charged with helping slaughter more than 800,000 mostly ethnic Tutsis in 1994. Tensions have existed between Hutus and Tutsis since the 19th century, when European colonizers exploited divisions between the two groups to maintain control. Violence erupted in 1994 after a plane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down. The Hutu army blamed the assassination on Tutsi rebels, with whom Habyarimana was negotiating a power-sharing agreement.