Photos from East Africa
Burundian Drummers greeting the American Ambassador’s Convoy
Jon filming a closing ceremony for a Women’s Human Rights training course in Buurndi. (One of many signs the country is finally at peace).
Burundian women watch the ceremony.
These women, dancing at the ceremony, are waving condoms in the air, we assumed to promote the survival skills learning in their training.
Jon with Patrice Faye, Burundi’s own Crocodile Dundee, and his Batwa (pygmy) assistant. Look how tall Jon is!
Jon shows his mechanical skills, when our very unreliable car once again fails to start in a remote Burundian town.
Our colleague Eric Manirakiza, a reporter at African Public Radio, and his newborn baby.
The preserved body of a genocide victim, at a memorial in Rwanda. 3,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutu’s were killed at this technical institute during the genocide. Their bodies have been preserved with chemicals and laid out on low racks in the former classrooms of the school.
Because so many people took part if Rwanda’s genocide (near 800,000 suspects), the jails are overflowing and the courts severely stressed. So the government decided to stage countrywide local trials, called “Gacaca” or “on the grass, under a tree.” They are local trials with trained local community members acting as judges. They happen on a particular day of the week in each region, and the whole town comes to watch, it’s largely about closure and moving on. These two men (in blue) are accused of driving a truck during the genocide that carried killers.
The long bus rides
Some disturbing headlines we recently awoke to.
anna @ August 11, 2007