Marie Louise is one of the women featured in our book and her portrait will be on the cover. She is a woman of amazing strength and courage, having survived a church massacre during the genocide in which 300 people perished.
One of the things that always amazes me when I go to Rwanda is the resilience of the genocide survivors. Despite losing everything, many of them love to sing and dance and have a great time.
Almost 15 years after the Rwandan genocide, there are claims of a campaign to murder survivors to prevent them from testifying against the perpetrators of the genocide. According to the Hirondelle News Agency in Arusha, 167 genocide survivors have been murdered since 1995.
