GENOCIDE STORIES Thousands of people hid from the gangs of killers among the papyrus and mud of the marshes around the Nyabarongo River. Survivors and killers remember what it was like... more
As trouble escalated, terrified Tutsis gathered in the Catholic church in Ntarama, A few days later, on 11th April 1994, soldiers and militia attacked the compound. Alisa tells her story... more
Olivier, a young Rwandan, talks about his grandfather. "We know you're a good person but we have orders to kill you, so this is what we're going to do... more
Who are these people and how could they do that? Ordinary Rwandans who participated in the killing talk about how it became possible to do the unthinkable... more
"We would wake up at six o'clock. We met up in town, where they would give us orders about the killings and our itineraries for the day, then off we went..." more
"I do not recognise myself in the man that ran through the marshes.Perhaps someone outside this situation, like you, can't understand that strangeness of mind.... more
"Some hunted slowly because they were afraid, some because they were lazy. Some struck quickly so as to go home early. It was each to his own personality.... more
Millions reached Tanzania, Zaire and Burundi. The UNHCR described it as the largest dislocation of a population they had ever seen. And they were fleeing more than revenge... more
This is the quiet of death and abandonment. I recall wave after wave of white butterflies, dancing in the indescribable quiet of a country where nobody was home.... more
GENOCIDE STORIES The story of the genocide is, in reality, seven million different stories. There were about 120,000 people living in the Nyamata district at the start of the genocide. In a little over six weeks only 50,000 were left. Five out of every six Tutsis had been killed. These are a few of the stories from the people of the Bugesera… more
GENOCIDE STORIES VIDEO As trouble escalated, terrified Tutsis gathered in the Catholic church in Ntarama, A few days later, on 11th April 1994, soldiers and militia attacked the compound. Alisa tells her story... more
GENOCIDE STORIES VIDEO Thousands of people hid from the gangs of killers among the papyrus and mud of the marshes around the Nyabarongo River. Survivors and killers remember what it was like... more