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Rwandan/Genocide survivor befriends Killer who kill her baby
'I watched him kill my baby daughter but I forgave him': Incredible story of the Rwandan genocide survivor who lost her nine-month-old baby in machete attack... and who now forgives her daughter's killer
- Alice Mukarurinda was 25 when she was attacked and left for dead by her former classmate, Emmanuel Ndayisaba
- Although Mrs Mukarurinda survived, her baby daughter who was just nine months old was murdered
- Now the pair have been reunited and Mrs Mukarurinda has forgiven the man who attacked her and killed her child
- Genocide survivors have been telling their stories ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 100 day massacre tomorrow
- Among them is Jean Marie Vianney, now 64, whose wife and six children were murdered by the Interahamwe
- Another is Aloys Rwamasirabo whose family died when militia bulldozed a church in which they were sheltering
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She lost her baby daughter and her right hand to a manic killing spree. He wielded the machete that took both. Yet today, despite coming from opposite sides of an unspeakable shared past, Alice Mukarurinda and Emmanuel Ndayisaba are friends.
She is the treasurer and he the vice president of a group that builds simple brick houses for genocide survivors. They live near each other and shop at the same market.
Their story of ethnic violence, extreme guilt and, to some degree, reconciliation is the story of Rwanda today, 20 years after its Hutu majority killed more than one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
'Whenever I look at my arm I remember what happened,' says Alice, a mother of five with a deep scar on her left temple where Emanuel sliced her with a machete. As she speaks, Emmanuel - the man who killed her baby - sits close enough that his left hand and her right stump sometimes touch.
Tomorrow, Rwanda marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of 100 days of bloody mayhem. But the genocide was in the making for decades, fuelled by hate speech, discrimination, propaganda and the training of death squads. Hutus had come to resent Tutsis for their greater wealth and what they saw as oppressive rule.
Rwanda is the most densely populated country in mainland Africa, slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Maryland but with a population of more than 12 million. The countryside is lush green, filled with uncountable numbers of banana trees.
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GRAPHIC DEAD BODIES:
Shocking: The majority of people killed were members of the Tutsi tribe; an estimated 70 per cent of which was massacred in just 100 days by machete wielding gangs
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...#ixzz2y8VPqmSl
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