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Why Jeannette employs her family's killers [Rwanda]
A...Tutsi woman named Jeannette Nyirabaganwa has at least 100...reasons never to speak to Anastaz Turimubakunzi again...[M]any of Jeannette's relatives, including her husband, parents, and baby, were killed during the 1994 genocide...Anastaz is a confessed killer who, Jeannette says, helped murder her husband. Yet Jeannette does...speak to Anastaz regularly. She even pays him - along with other Hutus who killed her relatives - to work on her coffee farm...The beans they grow and pick together are being sold...to Starbucks and other high-end US coffee purveyors, creating growing prosperity for her, him, and others.