Web-indexing accessed at Kigali Memorial Center

Went to KMC in the morning and shown the web-indexing application to Yves (head of documentation at KMC). Accessed the indexed testimony of Emmanuel Gatali - it was very slow but it worked. KMC internet connection is very slow and gets interupted intermittently. Their connection will be improved by November.

Ibuka's connection at Nyanza-Kicukiro is being planned and hopefully implemented within the next few months. The rates for a monthly connections are very high - about $1,000 a month for a 512/128 kbps connection.

Afternoon spent being driven around by a local friend and her husband. They took me to a cemetary that is on the opposite hill of the IBUKA building at Nyanza-Kicukiro. I did not know it existed but it holds a few mass graves for those killed on the hill as well as individual graves for a number of well-known politicians killed during the genocide; incl. the Vice-President. These politicians (Hutu) opposed the Hutu-Power ideology and regime and were the first ones targeted on April 7th. On top of that hill were a number of delapidated buildings - they were Habyarimana's resort hotel which he used to get away on weekends. (did not take a photo).

Morning at Film Institute - afternoon at KMC

Spent morning talking to Eric Kabera - went to visit Hillywood and to see the building for the new Film School which made some progress since last year. Eric and I spoke about videographers and training among other things. He gave me a copy of his latest documentary he did with Nick Hughes - ISETA - which is about the roadblock footage which Nick Hughes shot in April 1994 - the only footage in existence of actual killings during the genocide. (Watched the documentary - it is harrowing - it is Nick Hughes return to Rwanda in 2007 to show the footage and find survivors, relatives of those slain and perpetrators).

Afternoon spent at KMC talking to various staff or volunteers who are from the UK working there. There is one staff member - her name is Karen and guess what - she is from LA. I was not the only Karen from LA.

Dinner was with Madudu's best friend Yvette who had spent the previous two years in Sweden. She returned to Rwanda in March and is working for an American organization called Orphans in Rwanda - they provide scholarships for orphans to go to university. They also support them by providing workshops on a number of skills, and support them by providing them housing and food and so on.