Rwandan amputees bring message of hope

The baby accumulation of adolescent men airing confidently into the amphitheater in the Rwandan basic of Kigali, sit down and accidentally abstract their legs.Each prosthetic limb is of differing sizes and shapes. Some are adorned with Nike trainers, others Puma. Each is larboard alone by the wheelchairs that amphitheater the baby volleyball cloister fatigued out on to the harder accurate apparent as their owners yield to the attic and artfully coast into position.It has been a boxy ages for the Rwandan sitting volleyball team. Every day has apparent bifold convenance sessions. They accept the better matches of their lives to adapt for: a Sub-Saharan accomplishment clash adjoin the brand of Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo.It is due to yield abode on home soil, in Kigali, and the Rwandans are the favorites. But it's not bounded aloof rights at stake. The champ secures a abode at the 2012 London Paralympics.Today the country is still in the action of rebuilding from that brutal, about doubtful horror. But there is one assurance of the genocide that cannot be asleep so easily. The hundreds of bags of amputees larboard maimed, but who survived the violence, who move silently through the awash markets and streets like atoning ghosts; concealed and unheard. No one talks of the genocide any more. But the amputees abide a almanac of the country's alarming past.