One hundred days of genocide, thirty years of trauma | EUROtoday
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DSunday April 7 started, in Kigali, Kwibuka30, a commemoration lasting a number of weeks marking the 30e anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. In 1994, in 100 days of absolute horror, not less than 800,000 Tutsis have been coldly massacred by the bulk Hutu group. Moderate Hutus have been additionally murdered.
Kwibuka means “to remember” in Kinyarwanda, the nationwide language. Each 12 months, the annual commemorations, which final from April to July, revive painful reminiscences amongst survivors.
“You will see people falling, who are agitated, who are crying,” explains, in Nature, Jean Damascène Iyamuremye, director of a psychiatric unit on the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), the nation's essential well being group.
But these commemorations even have their…
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