Abstract
This study, written collaboratively with a native Rwandan author, briefly recalls the historical reality from a Rwandan perspective and addresses the consequences of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Furthermore, the way the Western world was a passive spectator to the economic, political and social pillage and Genocide that occurred in the last part of the 20th Century, that was, in 1994, is discussed. 
 How is reconciliation fostered in the communities across Rwanda? In particular, the sites and communities where massacres were held? Strong community ties and community being central to social work practice is observed in most East African countries, with no exception to Rwanda. While social work pedagogy is something new and possibly introduced by Western idiom, the tradition of welfare and mutual caring (would have been/ has been part) of the Kinyarwanda culture, language, and manner of living. What factors have worked for reconciliation, reconstruction of the society? How were people made to understand violence, and what did they replace it with? How is the post-genocide moral narrative shaped? The traditional indigenous processes that have been utilised, including the Gacaca, unique court process, are briefly discussed. How do people implant hate into people? By the same token, how do people put peace and love into people? These are a few questions that were central to this study throughout.
Highlights
On 18th March 2018, along with representatives of the international social work community, I took part in a peaceful March on the streets of Kigali to celebrate World Social Work
Our march moved on and culminated into a Gathering at Kigali Genocide Memorial. This was my true awakening to a history of the Land of a Thousand Hills and its people who epitomise a living meaning for the resilience of individuals and communities (Figure 1). They have rebuilt this beautiful country with grace shaking off the ashes of the 1994 genocide to transform into one of the fastest growing and cohesive economies in Africa
The information provided by the native Rwandan author, a social work influencer, provided a different eyewitness account and added value to the data
Summary
On 18th March 2018, along with representatives of the international social work community, I took part in a peaceful March on the streets of Kigali to celebrate World Social Work. One of the reasons the extraditions were blocked was that there was a risk that the alleged genocidaires would not have been granted a fair trial (Ochab, 2020) As a result, such prosecutions have not taken place in the United Kingdom because Rwandan authorities have refused to assist cases on the UK soil. As he was white, Gill only survivor of a disaster, does lament through the novel with sharp pain and screams aloud as he leaves his beloved, a native Rwandan woman and returns to Canada He castigates the Belgian missionaries to seed ethnic hatred between Ethiopia's tall, fair-skinned Hutu and the darker, shorter, and possibly less attractive Tutsi. We discuss the tumultuous history of the country linked to Genocide
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