Rwanda Interview Transcript

A segment of my sister's transcript of an interview conducted with a worker at a school in Rwanda:

Our students help each other a lot.

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We even received a national certificate of unity.

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We practices national unity at this school. For example, in 1997, there was a massacre of children.

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The interhamwe came here and told the children to separate

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They told the Hutus to stand together and for the Tutsis to stand together. But the girls, since they were taught to stay together,

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They refused to separate. They said that they were all Rwandans, and by refusing, they gave their lives.

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They killed 17 young girls

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Because they refused to separate into groups of Hutus and Tutsis, they were killed.

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They killed 17 and there were 20 that were wounded.

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Those girls are still handicapped. This is a moving example. These young girls

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from 12 to 20 years of age, who had the courage to die instead of to separate.

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Instead of saying “you are Hutu, you are Tutsi” even in the face of death.

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They accepted death, and that is very poignant.