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Independent Lens | Rose Mapendo Reacts to Tucson Tragedy | ITVS

Rose Mapendo lost her husband and her home during the ethnic violence that engulfed the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1990s, yet she emerged from the suffering advocating for forgiveness and reconciliation. Now, in this interview with Ted Simons of KAET 8 in Arizona, Ms. Mapendo shares her reaction to the recent incident in Tucson which took the lives of six people and injured nineteen, including US Representative Gabrielle Giffords. In trying to make sense of the violence, she thinks back to her own experience during the genocide in the Congo, where she realized that, while there are good and bad people, there is no such thing as "good tribes" and "bad tribes" -- a lesson she hopes we can learn from this recent tragedy. Rose Mapendo is the subject of the gripping documentary film, Pushing the Elephant, directed and produced by Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel, which premieres on the Emmy® Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by America Ferrera, on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10 PM (check local listings). Learn more about "Independent Lens": ‪www.pbs.org Watch "Independent Lens" films online: video.pbs.org

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