On April 8, 1994, they have to run away: when the neighbors warn his family, Jean Paul is ten years old and suddenly has no more certainties. He doesn’t know where to go, who the enemies are and why they kill, nor who is willing to offer shelter. The Tutsis are hunted down and massacred by the Hutus. Many are never heard from again.
The author of this memoir retraces the tragic days of the Rwandan genocide and goes beyond: he recounts the return home and the long process of reconciliation.
So that fear does not prevent beginning again together.
