'Other people ... told how she was beaten, how she was tortured, got raped,' he said. 'She became like a mad person. She got traumatized.'
Ruhumuriza Vincent De Paul, who was orphaned by genocide, puts a meal on a plate in the dinning hall at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village built to rehabilitate children who lost their families in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in Eastern Rwanda this week.Vincent de Paul Ruhumuriza was born in Rwanda just a few months before genocide consigned his father to an unknown grave and traumatized his mother so badly she still screams and shakes at any mention of that time.
But, helped by a model of healing dating back to the Holocaust, the 25-year-old has finished his education and blended into a new family, where individuals grieving lost loved ones have rebuilt their lives by caring for each other. "People should not be driven by the past," the bearded young man told Reuters this week, as the country prepared to mark a quarter of a century since Hutu militias killed around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.Seven years ago, Ruhumuriza's life was on course to become another small tragedy in a nation where every family is touched by grief.
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