Thirty years after the genocide, several Rwandan novelists take up the civil war. Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was 15 years old when her native country suffered the genocide perpetrated by the Hutus.
Today, she works as a writer. In Le Convoi, she reveals a more little-known story, that of the humanitarian organizations which played a vital role. She writes: “My life was saved. On June 18, 1994, a few weeks before the end of the genocide against the Tutsis, I was able to flee my country thanks to a convoy from the organization’