Two Rwandan Families Reconcile Two Decades After Genocide

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A plea for forgiveness and an unexpected marriage have brought two Rwandan families together 24 years after the genocide that claimed more than 800 thousand people -- mostly Tutsis -- in Rwanda. VOA reporter Edward Rwema recently visited Rwanda and has the story of how the son of a confessed killer married the daughter of a family who lost relatives at the hands of the father.