Saturday, April 07, 2007

Rwandan story - escape on a motor bike

A is a Hutu married to a Tutsi woman. During the genocide she managed to escape from the country. While he was in Rwanda the Interahamwe came for his motor bike. There was one night of a very close call when he was imprisoned and threatened with death because he had hidden it. Eventually he too escaped to Burundi.
At the end of the genocide they were living in Cyangugu. They have clear memories of being hungry and watching the UNHCR food convoys driving past them and into the Congo where food was given out in the refugee camps. It is well known that many of the camps were full of people responsible for the genocide.
A and his wife braved some dangerous times in Cyangugu after the genocide to bring help to people living here.

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