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 NTEKO, Rwanda (AP) - Some 774 Rwandans convicted by community courts for their role in the 1994 genocide begin excavating stones for road construction as punishment for their role in the killings of more than a half-million people in this small central African nation.
The community service is intended to foster reconciliation after the slaughter of members of the Tutsi ethnic minority and political moderates from the Hutu majority. The killings were orchestrated by the extremist Hutu government then in power.
Some genocide survivors, however, were unhappy to see those who killed their relatives, stole their property and destroyed their lives receive what they considered to be lenient punishment.
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