She settles in France and then becomes, with her family and the other expatriates

This instrumentalization of hatred killed one million people in just one hundred days. The stigmatization of the Tutsi ethnic group led to a genocide as swift as it was deadly.

She settles in France and then becomes, together with her family and the other expatriates, one of the guardians of the memory of the genocide.

According to her, this drift took advantage precisely of “the rendering illiterate of a very large majority of the population.” The narrative of the enemy was thus able to circulate without being contradicted by an independent reading of the facts. The failure, for years, to acknowledge France’s involvement in the genocide perpetrated by the authorities in power gave her, she recounts, “the impression of being a child of divorced parents.”.