Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 4, Issue - 2, 1 August 2019 | Page 27

Friday, 5 July 2019
I looked around, desperately searching for a way out. I was so small, only
eight years old, and I ran as fast as I could and managed to squeeze myself
out between the iron bars in one of the windows. I jumped to the ground
and climbed a tree, my throat so tight that it felt like I was suffocating. From
the tree I saw them kill people below me, but the killers didn’t see me. How
long did I sit there? I don’t know. My fear made time stop.
After the genocide, me and my sister that survived came to live with the
only aunt we had left – she was the sister of my mother and was married to
my uncle. We used to live together as a big family before the genocide.
Now it was only her and her two children, plus my sister and me left.
Imagine!
Long after the genocide was over, we lived with fear that the Interhamwe
would come and nish their job, to kill all Tutsis. Government soldiers had to
es- cort us to school because the Interhamwe continued to attack even
children like us. I suppose they did so because they had been told all Tutsis
were bad. When they nally found and identi ed the bodies of my parents it
became even more dangerous, because it became clear where they had
been killed and by whom.
Even though three years had passed since the genocide it was unbearable.
We could not live like this and the soldiers told my aunt to let me and my
sister move to Kabuga to go to school there. Since the people we moved to
were no relatives of mine, I offered to work in the house even though I was
going to school, so that they wouldn’t feel that it was a burden to take care
of me.”
I met Murigo during the rst training that Dr. Johnson and I had with or-
phans of the genocide in 2007. When Murigo got certi ed as a Trauma
Tapper she wrote this testimony for our website:
“Without TTT I don’t know if I would be alive today. You know in 1994 I lost
all my family. I did not feel good. I could not sleep in the night. I was crying a
lot. I couldn’t do anything to help myself. I couldn’t think about future. I didn’t
like to go back to university. In fact I was feeling lonely all the time and my
body was very weak.
The tapping treatment has changed many things in me. Now I can sleep. I
have no more headaches. No more crying. I have gone back to university
and my body is much stronger. I can laugh now. I will do TTT wherever I
go!”
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