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Updated January 27, 2021
Bisesero genocide survivors Narcisse Kabanda (R) and Aaron Mukomeza (L) pose for a portrait in Bisesero, western Rwanda, on December 2, 2020. – Narcisse Kabanda says that it gives them strength every time they hear that people on the run who carried out the genocide have been arrested. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP)
A stunned silence, and then cries of joy ring out in the green Bisesero hills.
Survivors of one of the most terrible episodes of the genocide in Rwanda have just spotted Alain Gauthier their lifeline to justice.
“I’ve come to say ‘turikumwe’ (“we are together”) and that you mustn’t lose heart or hope,” the 72-year-old Frenchman tells them.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday January 27 2021
Genocide Survivor Albertine Mukakamanzi pose for a photograph in front of coffins in Gatwaro Genocide Memorial in Kibuye, western province of Rwanda, on December 1, 2020. Photo | AFP
Summary
Mukakamanzi has had to dig deep into her resources of courage to return to the place of that farewell, more than 26 years later.
Advertisement Goodbye, Mama. We ll meet in heaven.
Those were the young Albertine Mukakamanzi s final words to her mother, whom she last saw kneeling in prayer as the men with machetes closed in on their refuge.
Mukakamanzi has had to dig deep into her resources of courage to return to the place of that farewell, more than 26 years later.
The genocide detectives
Nicknamed “The Klarsfelds of Rwanda” after Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, Alain and Dafroza Gauthier are fighting to prevent evil from being consigned to a footnote of history
AFP, BISESERO, Rwanda
A stunned silence, and then cries of joy ring out in the green Bisesero hills.
Survivors of one of the most terrible episodes of the genocide in Rwanda have just spotted Alain Gauthier their lifeline to justice.
“I’ve come to say turikumwe (“we are together”) and that you mustn’t lose heart or hope,” the 72-year-old Frenchman tells them.
A general view of skulls of victims of the Tutsi genocide are stored last month in a showcase in Gatwaro Genocide Memorial in Kibuye, western province of Rwanda.
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