The boy crouched silently in the rafters, hiding. When the men
came, he saw them murder his father and then rape and kill his
sister.  It is a horrible story. There are thousands of such
stories in Rwanda.  In a country where everyone has lost
something or someone, victims and perpetrators live side by
side, and the remains of the dead are still being pulled from
the ground, how does healing begin?  Several psychologists have
been working with the people of Rwanda to try to find an answer
to that question.  Genocide and its aftermath  For 100 days
during spring and summer of 1994,  Hutu mobs systematically
hunted down and killed Tutsis and some moderate Hutus.
Government forces and extremist militia groups started the
killing after the Hutu president's plane was shot down, but soon
ordinary citizens were drawn into the genocide. More than
800,000 people died-most of them Tutsi.  Although the genocide
ended when a new Tutsi-controlled government took control, years
of conflict in the country and with neighbori