Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was born in Rwanda in 1979. She was 15 years old when her native country suffered the genocide perpetrated by the Hutus. The UN revealed that, from April 7 to July 17, more than 800,000 people, most of whom were Tutsis, were massacred. Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is one of the survivors. Today, she works as a writer. In collections of short stories (
Lézardes
,
Ejo
) or poems (
After Progress
), she had undertaken the story, or at least, part of the story of this genocide which had touched her. Then in
All your children dispersed
, published in 2019, she recounted the return to Butare, her hometown in Rwanda.
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This time, in
Le Convoi
, she reveals a more little-known story, that of the humanitarian organizations which played a vital role. She writes, from the first pages of her book:
“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…
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