Black Earth Rising: Here's a New Look at the BBC Limited Series Before it Hits Netflix


Adopted by a human rights attorney after the Rwandan genocide, legal investigator Kate Ashby confronts her past when she takes on war crimes cases.
Adopted by a human rights attorney after the Rwandan genocide, legal investigator Kate Ashby confronts her past when she takes on war crimes cases.
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Episode 1
Fri, Jan 25, 2019 59 mins
Kate is a young woman with a traumatic past: she was lucky to survive the genocide in Rwanda against her people, the Tutsi, but she has been deeply scarred. Thanks to her adoptive mother Eve, she was able to grow up peacefully in the Western world. But now their relationship is rocked by a violent dispute. With the help of Eve, who is a prosecutor, General Simon Nyamoya is to be tried at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The man, of all people, who put a stop to the genocide in Rwanda that Kate and her people have suffered so much. He is still a hero in their eyes, even if he now has numerous serious crimes to answer for. And meanwhile, the worst villains and perpetrators of the genocide are still at large. For example, Patrice Ganimana, in whose name nearly a million people were murdered. Canadian UN Major Charles Bouchard is not about to let him off so easily. When he believes he has encountered him in a hospital, he tries to turn him in. Meanwhile, the trial in The Hague begins, and Kate and Eve's relationship is put to the test.

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