A former doctor is on trial for his alleged role in the mass killings of more than 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them
Family photographs of some of those who died in the 1994 geocide in Rwanda, at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, in Kigali, Rwanda, on April 5, 2014.Bullets flew. Then men with machetes and clubs burst into a convent where people had found refuge, killing almost all the boys and men.
The dead included some of Uwamahoro’s family members. She said she came to court to “seek justice for my people, who died for who they were.” Several witnesses traveled to Paris and gave graphic descriptions of the killings in the Butare region where Rwamucyo was at the time. “Those with machetes and clubs started hitting people. Some slit their ankles, others their throat ... And then they stayed to see if anyone was still alive,” he said. He had been struck by a club but tried to stay still.
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