I was very pleased when I read about the activities by genocide convicts in Huye district. This adds T.I.G as another success story after Gacaca.

If a convict can be able to build a house for those he wronged, then I think the seeds of unity and reconciliation are being planted at that moment.

We should also not forget that these genocide convicts involved in the exercise have confessed their crimes and asked to be forgiven.

Once they give a hand to the rejuvenation of the welfare genocide victims, it’s a bonus to the complete development of Rwandese as a whole.

I’ve also read in several of your issues about the construction work done by these convicts.

The importance of TIG is almost similar to that of rehabilitation centres and here i8n the U.S.A. Am quite optimistic that these convicts will leave prison with enough knowledge to fit in a fast developing environment that Rwanda is.

I encourage the government of Rwanda to continue solving problems this way, other than compacting western solution to typical African environments. Kenya should be prepared to borrow Rwanda’s way of doing things; that’s if they end their sad crisis.

SPRINGFIELD ILLINIOS