A Summary Of My Testimony: Period 1994-1998
Abstract:
Jean Marie MINANI
Since I entered the World on 8thJune 1973 until today, my life is surviving atrocities. It was in April1973 two months before I born, while my mother carried me in her womb, my mother and I survivedthe killings thattook place in southern region of Rwanda proceeding a military coup against President Kayibanda, removed from power by Major GeneralHabyarimana,In 1994 between April to July, I survivedthe“100 Days”Tutsi genocide when the mass slaughters took lives of millions of RwandanTutsis, and other ethnical groups and some foreigners. In 1996-1998, Isurvived the mass slaughtering of Hutu refugees in the DR-Congo. I travelled about 3000kmsin nine months on foot in the Congo jungle, crossing small and big rivers, swamps and hills, hiding in the forest to escape the slaughter areas where millions of Rwandan refugees had been surrounded by the soldiers sent by the current Rwandan regime to eliminate them.I survived dying by starvation,and other diseases than took ten of thousands of Rwandan refugees in Congo. Wewere hunted like animalseverywhere, everyday we were surrounded bydeath. I can’t really imagine. My survival is big a miracle!I think today I am livinglifeInyongezo1, a bonus life.
In these tragic situations in Rwanda and the RDCongo, I lost my relatives Hutu and Tutsi killed from both sides, either by Interahamwe militia or by Inkotanyi RPF soldiers. My mother, one sister, two nephews, my brother in law, a half-brothers, my cousin, my God-father, many friends and other relatives of the extended family were killed by Inkotanyi soldiers, on the other side I lost my a half-brother, my cousin and his whole family, many friends and other relatives of the extended family were killed in 1994 by Interahamwe militia.
Having survived the tragic events that fellow Rwandans gone through, it is not easy for me to narrate every details of what happened to me and my family since, but I find it very much important as a survivor to stand and deliver you my personal testimony on what I witnessed, what I saw, and what I went through Attached is a summary to my testimony which I will compile in a book.
Read the whole testimony attached in pdf below;
JMinani_a_summary_to_my_testimony_May_20221.pdf
