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RWANDAN GENOCIDE SURVIVOR HAS COME TO YEREVAN AS A SISTER OF PAIN
17:50, 22 April, 2015
YEREVAN, 22 APRIL, ARMENPRESS. Esther Mujavayo, 58, has come to Yerevan
to not only share the pain for the Armenian Genocide with the Armenian
people, but to also join the Armenian people in proving that, like
the Armenians, the tribes having experienced the Rwandan genocide
have also survived and can't be killed.
"I have come here as a sister of pain. I am here as a survivor of the
Rwandan genocide. I have been living with this pain for 21 years now.
I was lucky to stay alive. They killed my husband, father, sister
and my husband's relatives. They were killed, but I stayed alive to
bear that pain and live with that memory," Mujavayo mentioned during
the forum entitled "Against the Crime of Genocide", as "Armenpress"
reports.
Mujavayo paused from time to time during her speech as she remembered
the horrors of the past, wiped the tears and kept repeating: "We
survived, we must live for the sake of those who were killed."
"By remembering your pain, I am also your sister who was saved and
survived," Mujayavo mentioned, adding that she compares the Armenians
to a tree that hasn't dried, and the small branch of which has given
life to an enormous tree.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/802884/rwandan-genocide-survivor-has-come-to-yerevan-as-a-sister-of-pain.html
17:50, 22 April, 2015
YEREVAN, 22 APRIL, ARMENPRESS. Esther Mujavayo, 58, has come to Yerevan
to not only share the pain for the Armenian Genocide with the Armenian
people, but to also join the Armenian people in proving that, like
the Armenians, the tribes having experienced the Rwandan genocide
have also survived and can't be killed.
"I have come here as a sister of pain. I am here as a survivor of the
Rwandan genocide. I have been living with this pain for 21 years now.
I was lucky to stay alive. They killed my husband, father, sister
and my husband's relatives. They were killed, but I stayed alive to
bear that pain and live with that memory," Mujavayo mentioned during
the forum entitled "Against the Crime of Genocide", as "Armenpress"
reports.
Mujavayo paused from time to time during her speech as she remembered
the horrors of the past, wiped the tears and kept repeating: "We
survived, we must live for the sake of those who were killed."
"By remembering your pain, I am also your sister who was saved and
survived," Mujayavo mentioned, adding that she compares the Armenians
to a tree that hasn't dried, and the small branch of which has given
life to an enormous tree.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/802884/rwandan-genocide-survivor-has-come-to-yerevan-as-a-sister-of-pain.html