Special envoy to Kigali
In the spring of 1994, like hundreds of thousands of Hutus, Valens Ndanzineza's father participated in the genocide perpetrated against 1 million men, women and children of the Tutsi ethnic group. So, in May of the same year, his family fled Rwanda to avoid reprisals. Before being able to return to his native village, Gateko, Valens lived for several months in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “
At school, people whispered as I passed by that my father was a killer
,” Valens recalls. Over time, he learned to live with the legacy of his father's atrocities. But every year, from April 7 to July 17, he revisits his past during the official commemorative ceremonies of the genocide.
Thirty years ago, on April 6, 1994, a plane was shot down in mid-flight. On board, two heads of state: Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, who is of the Hutu ethnic group, and his Burundian counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira. THE…
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