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The children of genocide in Rwanda - Hategekimana trial / France Manier in France

I was 10 years old in Rwanda in 1994 and now a prosecution witness

A dozen people who were under 15 in 1994 have testified at the genocide trial of former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana before a Paris court. With frozen scenes, lost details and distorted time, they recount the chaos and massacres from a child's perspective. They illustrate the phenomenon of "hypermnesia", particular to child victims, and the […]

By Lena Bjurström

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