Can forgiveness that is mandated by a government be genuine?

From Africa is a Country Fri Apr 11 2014, 07:00:29

Reviewer Neil Genzinger (in The New York Times) writes about the new documentary film, "Coexist" (to be shown on US public television this month) about post-genocide Rwanda, 20 years later. The film, according to Genzinger, "... at first seems as if it is merely going to be another effort to draw feel-good stories out of an impossibly ugly moment in history." But then it explores "whether forgiveness that is mandated by the (Rwandan) government can be genuine."

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