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New mass graves in Rwanda reveal cracks in reconciliation efforts

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A tourists walks past family photographs of some of those who died in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial center in Kigali, Rwanda, April 4, 2024. [AP Photo]

The diggers' hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for - and often finding - human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence.

The digging goes on, a scene that's become all too familiar in a verdant area of rural southern Rwanda, where the discovery in October of human remains at the site of a house under construction triggered another search for new mass graves believed to hold victims of the 1994 genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi.

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