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| - Features Editors: Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 Hong Kong: Sean Gleeson +852 2829 6249 They are known as "The Klarsfelds of Rwanda" after Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld. French-Rwandan couple Alain and Dafroza Gauthier have devoted years to tracking down suspects in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. As France prepares to put on trial the latest suspect, AFP is moving a special report on the Gauthiers' race against time to secure justice for genocide victims, and the testimony of a Rwandan woman who, against all odds, survived the bloodbath. + From France to Rwanda's hills, the husband-and-wife genocide hunters + The nine lives of Rwanda genocide survivor Albertine Rwanda-genocide-investigation-France-court,SPECIALREPORT BISESERO, Rwanda A stunned silence, and then cries of joy ring out in the green Bisesero hills. Survivors of one of the most terrible episodes of the genocide in Rwanda have just spotted Alain Gauthier -- their lifeline to justice. 2,200 words by Lucie Peytermann. Pictures by Simon Wohlfahrt in Rwanda and Francois Nascimbeni in France. Video by Simon Wohlfahrt in Rwanda and Guillaume Bonnet in France Rwanda-genocide-investigation-France-court-survivor,SPECIALREPORT KIBUYE, Rwanda "Goodbye, Mama. We'll meet in heaven." Those were the young Albertine Mukakamanzi's final words to her mother, whom she last saw kneeling in prayer as the men with machetes closed in on their refuge. 1,600 words by Lucie Peytermann. Pictures and video by Simon Wohlfahrt afp
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