Survivor stories
Testimonies and personal stories from survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda: what we lived through, and how we live now.
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Why Scholastique Mukasonga Is My Favorite Rwandan Writer
Of all the Rwandan writers alive today, Scholastique Mukasonga is perhaps my favorite. Reading Mukasonga transports me back to my mother’s world – to women lovingly…
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When History Repeats Itself: Rwanda, Congo, and the Scars of Genocide
Nearly thirty years after the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsis, its legacy continues to impact the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Rwandan…
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Dissenting Survivors in Danger: Key Takeaways from HRW’s Rwanda Report
For quite some time, genocide survivors like me were spoon-fed the myth that the current Rwandan regime was our savior, the perfect protector of our peace…
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“Have You Forgiven Your Family’s Killers?” – An Inadequate Question for a Genocide Survivor
“Have you forgiven the Hutu killers?” It’s a question that haunts me, for the past 30 years. It slips out at conferences, whispers from the audience…
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Why Do My African Friends Know Nothing of the Rwanda Genocide?
It still surprises me how little many of my educated African friends know about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. As someone who lived…
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A Wedding Shadowed by Genocide’s Ghosts
I recently attended the wedding of a fellow survivor of the 1994 Rwanda genocide against the Tutsi. As I watched the bride walk down the aisle,…
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Igicumbi Kivuze Ibyo Abacitsekwicumu Bahishwe Ku Mpamvu Z’Ishingwa rya MINUBUMWE (Video)
Umuryango Igicumbi, Ijwi ry’Abarokotse Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi, uranenga ibyemezo byatangajwe na Ministeri y’Ubumwe, mu ijwi rya Minisitiri wayo, Jean D’amascene Bizimana. Uyu mutegetsi umaze kumenyerwa nk’igikoresho…
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Paris City Names Street After Rwandan Hero
Paris city authorities in France have confirmed they will name 18ème Arrondissement road after Aminadab Birara, a Rwandan who succumbed to Genocide against the Tutsi but…
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Abarokotse Jenoside bo mu Igicumbi Bageneye Ubutumwa Abayobozi b’u Rwanda
Nyuma y’ukwezi, Umuryango Igicumbi-Ijwi ry’abarokotse Jenoside yakorewe abatutsi utangijwe, uyu muryango uratabariza bamwe mu barokotse jenoside bakomeje gukorerwa akarengane gatandukanye harimo kwicwa kuri bamwe, no kunyagwa…
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Impaka Ku Muryango Igicumbi Zatumye Uwacitsekwicumu Yirukanwa Muri Ibuka-USA
Nyuma y’uko twanditse tunenga itsinda ryatangije umuryango wiswe IBUKA- USA kudakorera mu mucyo, iri tsinda ryirukanye bamwe muri bagenzi babo barokotse Jenoside yakorewe abatutsi nyuma y’impaka…