i m victoria uwonkunda and i m a reporterfor the bbc. hello and welcome to newsday, here on the bbc world service with victoria uwonkunda. i was born in rwanda, but i ve lived most of my life in norway and the uk. my life was turned upside down on the 7th of april 1994. as a child, it was difficult to comprehend what was happening, but i was lucky enough to have my immediate family with me. as i am planning my first ever trip back home, i am reminded of how my sisters and i felt the day we escaped kigali. daniela and nelly were in the car with me. i remember when we stopped for food after so many hours in the car, and there was literally nothing. because everything was finished. and for me, that always sticks in my memory of that day when we were leaving kigali. her and i were in the trunk. yes, you were. i know it was a really long journey but, for me, like, it s so compressed into. ..this kind of really uncomfortable, hungry, thirsty, warm, scary emotion that ended when we
beeps i m victoria uwonkunda and i m a reporterfor the bbc. hello and welcome to newsday, here on the bbc world service with victoria uwonkunda. i was born in rwanda, but i ve lived most of my life in norway and the uk. my life was turned upside down on the 7th of april 1994. as a child, it was difficult to comprehend what was happening, but i was lucky enough to have my immediate family with me. as i am planning my first ever trip back home, i am reminded of how my sisters and i felt the day we escaped kigali. daniela and nelly were in the car with me. i remember when we stopped for food after so many hours in the car, and there was literally nothing. because everything was finished. and for me, that always sticks in my memory of that day when we were leaving kigali. her and i were in the trunk. yes, you were. i know it was a really long journey but, for me, like, it s so compressed into. ..this kind of really uncomfortable, hungry, thirsty, warm, scary emotion that ended wh
for as long as i can remember, i ve wanted to go back home. home to the place where i was born. a home i hadn t seen in 30 years. it s also 30 years since the genocide, which killed about 800,000 people. i was one of the lucky ones. my family and i got away, but many didn t. now i m returning to my home country to trace back my escape route when i was just 12 years old. there s no sound that fills me with so much joy as the sound of children in a classroom. as i am reunited with my family, i also want to uncover the country s journey to healing and reconciliation. this is one of the groups that carsa has, made by genocide survivors and the genocide former perpetrators. and i ll be hearing from those who had a role in the killings and their survivors. translation: to me, he was not only a murderer, but a monster. beeps. i m victoria uwonkunda and i m a reporterfor the bbc. hello and welcome to newsday, here on the bbc world service with victoria uwonkunda. i was born in rwan
in town as a backdrop for a festival of lights and water. in the. box we begin with a look back at the life of british writes an illustrator of children s books judith who s died aged 95 she was actually born here in berlin but fled the nazis with a parents in the early 1930 s. a most famous book remains the tiger who came to tea there were many witty and lovingly illustrated books like the whole series on monk the cat was always getting into difficult situations his mole. judith kerr s career as an award winning author started with a bedtime story she invented for her daughter she didn t wrote down and illustrated the tiger who came to tea which was published in 1968 and has since sold millions of copies worldwide but it was a less whimsical book for young adults that really launched her career when hitler still pink rabbit is a semi autobiographical book based on her own childhood experiences.
judith kerr was born in berlin in 1923 father alfred kerr was an influential theater cri