A decade after the Rwandan genocide, survivors and perpetrators live side by side across the country’s hillsides. This paper, based primarily on interviews and observation conducted in Rwanda between April and August 2004, will explore the dynamics of political commemoration of the 1994 Rwanda genocide at the ten year anniversary, and the implications of these dynamics for social and community healing. The paper will explore how the genocide is being portrayed in sites central to the production of public memory, including commemoration events, genocide memorials, and school curricula, all of which are part of systematic and nonsystematic processes of socialization. These sites and events provide a narrative that tells a particular story about what it means to be Rwandan in the “new” post-genocide Rwanda: who is included and excluded in this definition, and what benefits and responsibilities go along with it. Narratives shape memory construction and understandings of events to provide legitimization for past, present, and future actions, and as such can be powerful forces towards bringing communities together or fueling further division and conflict. The paper will evaluate the status of dynamics in Rwanda ten years after the genocide as reflected in these sites, considering what group identities are being reformed versus reified in these narratives and commemorations, what divisions are being overcome versus polarized, and how this is contributing to or reflecting the reconstitution of people’s communities and healing of the social fabric ten years after the genocide.