Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 4, Issue - 2, 1 August 2019 | Page 26

Friday, 5 July 2019
Murigo, a Generous Survivor
“During the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda I was hiding in the church in Kay-
onza together with a lot of people. The church was full, you could hardly
move or nd space to lay down and rest. We were there for two weeks, but
then one morning the killers came – we heard them shouting and singing
songs about how they were coming to get us. There were so many of them,
what could we do?
They threw in burning mattresses and people panicked. They stormed the
church with machetes and clubs, killing people around me. I recognized
several of the killers, they were men and boys from our community, some
were my neighbors others were local leaders of our area. They all came to
kill us. They started swinging their machetes, and soon there was blood
everywhere. Chil- dren, women and men were screaming.
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