A broken life
In search of lost parents and lost happiness
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Beschreibung
In 1994, the genocide against the Tutsi was taking place in the small central African country Rwanda: Approximately 1 million Tutsi were killed within 100 days, mostly in a bestial way. Judence, a Tutsi 11 years old at the time, experienced this bloody massacre and luckily survived. Only now, after many years, she can talk about the events of that time and come to terms with her past.
She courageously goes public with this book and describes in moving words her experiences, which touched her deeply, influenced and shaped her future life. For her to come to terms with the events, there can only be the path of understanding and forgiveness. However, “I cannot forgive as if nothing had happened. That is not possible. I therefore leave it behind me”, is her emphatic message.
The book ends with an appeal to all genocide survivors to continue documenting the story of the genocide against the Tutsi so that it will be a lesson for future generations.
Teach worldwide young generations what happened in genocide against Tutsi in Ruanda in 1994 in order to prevent that similar happens again.
Autor*in
Judence Kayitesi
Die Autorin wurde 1983 in Ruanda geboren. Sie gehört der Volksgruppe der Tutsi an. Der Völkermord an den Tutsi in Ruanda fand 1994 statt als sie 11 Jahren alt war. Sie überlebte die Zeit, in der in Hundert Tagen fast 1 Millionen Menschen, vorwiegend Tutsi, auf schrecklichste Weisen umgebracht wurden. Sie selbst wurde durch eine Machete am Kopf schwer verletzt. Aus diesem Grund konnte sie vier Jahre nicht sprechen. Sie verlor ihre Eltern und viele ihrer Verwandten. Das hat ihr gesamtes Leben beeinflusst und tut dies auch noch heute. Sie lebt seit 2010 mit ihrer Familie in Deutschland.
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Originally published in German language in November 2019, the book which is titled “Ein Zerbrochenes Leben” recollects horrible memories of the dark times Kayitesi and her two brothers endured.
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Judence Kayitesi was happy to give The New Times, located in Rwanda, an interview about her new book translatet from German to English. The article was published exactly at the day of twenty seventh anniversary of the cut she got by a machete on her head.
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