A survivor’s blog since 2013
I was ten in 1994. I still write for that boy.
Justice, memory, and the stories survivors are told to keep quiet.
And for everyone who never got to grow up. Here I write about his hopes, his fears, and, I’ll admit, quite often his frustrations. This is where I share the stories survivors are told to keep quiet or are too afraid to tell, about justice, memory, human rights, and life after the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
Start here
- Genocide Against the Tutsi 101New to this history? The basics, a timeline, and what to read.
- How many survived?Survivors in numbers: who did the counting, and why the counts differ so much.
- Genocide fugitive trackerWho has been tried, where, and how many are still free.
- Rwanda’s genocide memorialsWhere survivors buried their families, and what they want you to know.
Newest story
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Roommates in 1994, Liars in 2019, Caught in 2026: The Story of Genocide Fugitives Teganya and Nshimiye
Read the story: Roommates in 1994, Liars in 2019, Caught in 2026: The Story of Genocide Fugitives Teganya and NshimiyeA surreal story of two friends who turned out to be real partners in crime. In 2019 Eric Nshimiye took the stand to defend his old roommate, Jean Léonard Teganya.…
Behind the numbers
Every number is a person. Tap one to learn more.
About 150,000Tutsi survivors counted in the camps in July 1994.Who survived →
70,734People convicted in absentia of genocide crimes who have never been caught.Where they are →
250,000+Women and girls raped during the 100 days, by the UN’s estimate.The full count →
207Genocide memorial sites across Rwanda. Survivors built most of them first.Places of memory →
More recent stories
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Rwanda Shelved Our Genocide Reparations Plan. Now It Blames International Law.
This week, Rwanda’s justice minister said international law failed genocide survivors. He’s right. But in 2012, survivors brought the same problem to…
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Jacaranda, Now in English: A Novel That Knows Our Silence
Few novels capture what we survivors bury deep within ourselves, or how our silence shapes our spouses and children, as closely as…
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How Rwanda Took Genocide Memory From Its Survivors
My friend Jeanne has buried her family three times. Her story shows how Rwandan law put the memory of the genocide against…
My story
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A Past That Is Ever-Present
April 7, 1994, marked the start of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. I was there. Initially naive, I eventually pieced…
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A Brief Note to My Father
Dearest Father, It has been thirty years since the genocide took you from me. The journey since then has been hard. We…
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