“I was against Mom's body. I saw the tunnel, and at the end the sun. It was Mom's smile. I was ready to go with her. ”
On October 24, 1993, Mugisha's life -
"the lucky child"
in kirundi - rocked into horror.
Following a coup d'état against Melchior Ndadaye, president assassinated three days earlier, Burundi sank into a civil war opposing two ethnic groups: the Hutus and the Tutsis.
Tutsi, son of a head of the Burundian army, Mugisha was not long in being caught in the spiral of a genocide on the move.
Even though he has not yet blown out his third birthday candle, he witnesses the execution of his mother, beheaded before his eyes by Hutu militiamen.
He himself received several blows from a machete, leaving him for dead.
But miraculously, he survives.
Amputated of his right leg.
Bruised in his flesh, and much more in his soul.
To discover
The Olympic medal table
The results of the 2020 Olympics
Without knowing it yet, Mugisha did indeed die that October afternoon, to leave the
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