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The prosecutor is pressing his case
against a killer - a Catholic priest
who bulldozed a church,
murdering the 1500 people sheltered inside.
"He committed genocide.
He committed extermination."
The prosecutor, Alfred Orono,
has a passion for justice.
Thirty years ago, his own childhood
was cruelly ended.
He was 12 years old in 1979, when Tanzanian forces
invaded his native Uganda
to oust the brutal Dictator Idi Amin.
People fled in all directions.
"People disappeared. A lot of children of my age
who were separated from their families
for so many months, even years."
Cut off from his family, he fled to Southern Sudan,
which was itself in turmoil, but there was no safety there.
Before he was even a teenager,
Alfred was carrying an AK47.
And then, at last, a glimmer of hope.
"I saw a flag – a UN flag."
The UN took Orono in.
He found shelter with 30,000 refugees in a camp.
He won a scholarship to study law in Canada.
And then he got his dream job - a chance to work
for the organization that had saved his life
and a chance to fight for justice.
Alfred was recruited by the International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
So today, the boy who once held a Kalashnikov,
helps prosecute the perpetrators
of horrifying crimes – the 1994 genocide
of some 800,000 people in Rwanda.
"It is because of my strong belief
that deep inside every human being there is a lot of good
and I always look for that good."
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