"My Masculinity was Stolen" An ex-prisoner is counselled by a gathering of the local Alert Dialogue Club about how to cope with his wife's rejection following his return home after having spent nearly a decade in jail. He says, "my masculinity is stolen, I am depressed, no longer a man". The club members gently advise him to show her love, to court her again as if they were young lovers - not to show her hate and to let go of his anger. 17th May 2012 Muganza, Rwanda . This photographic essay focuses on the daunting task of rebuilding a fractured society through the eyes of the perpetrators, ex-combatants and survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide along with the vulnerable generation of young Rwandans growing up in an atmosphere clouded by conflict. The visual journal provides a narrative of their daily personal experiences conquering the challenges in their communities that continue to be divided, within a landscape that promotes reconciliation and forgiveness as the engine to nurture a peaceful united prosperous nation. This series aims to provide a view of the long-term implications of war and, the solutions on the ground to rebuild these fractured lives from the perspective of not only survivors, but also from the perpetrator's vantage. The Rwandan Genocide was a genocidal mass slaughter of ethnic Tutsis by ethnic Hutus that took place in 1994 in the East African state of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days (from the assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira on April 6 through mid-July) over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate.Estimates of the death toll have ranged from 500,000-1,000,000, or as much as 20% of the country's total population. It was the culmination of longstanding ethnic competition and tensions between the minority Tutsi, who had controlled power for centuries, and the majority Hutu peoples, who had come to power in the rebellion of 1959-62. ? Carol Allen-Sto