My return home 30 years after Rwanda's genocide – BBC Africa

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My return home 30 years after Rwanda's genocide – BBC Africa


Victoria Uwonkunda makes an emotional journey back to Rwanda, where she grew up.

She was visiting for the first time since she fled the 1994 genocide with her family at the age of 12.

Victoria retraces her journey from the capital Kigali, to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In April 1994 extremists belonging to the Hutu…

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  1. I am from Cameroon and this Rwanda Genocide carried out by the Hutus against the Tutsis in which about a million people or more were slaughtered in the watchful eyes of the international community is a very terrible thing that happened to mankind. I shed tears each time I watch a documentary on that. I am even more surprised how they managed to reconcile and live together as a country after too much hatred and bloodsheed. May God bless Paul Kagame for transforming Rwanda this much within a short time. Yes Rwanda is a great country. Thanks very much for this documentary.

  2. The past six months has been a study for the ages of Humanity – steeped in evil – at its historical worst.
    The story of Narcisse and Evariste is also a study for the ages but of humans reaching the very pinnacle of their potential as moral agents capable of rising above animal instinct. Biden, and Sunak on Gaza; Macron (and your war-mongering East European support cast for war in Europe), look on and know SHAME!

  3. The Belgian soldiers there should be ashamed of letting this genocide occur , you can conquer countries with superior weapons and training but can’t defend them !!

  4. African leaders who are cultivating ethnic based federalism should learn from Rewdan's history!!!!!! Thank u BBC for the documentary even though u didn't condemn the genocide timely at the time of the event…….

  5. This so called media :
    As surviver to you:
    1. You are at the wrong side of history.
    2. You can't cheat all the peuple all the time.
    3. The spirit of our peuple will hunt you and those in denial.
    4. The side of the good will be always prevail vis a vis to the evil 😈

  6. There are like 350,000 Tutsis living in Rwanda; the rest of them are in eastern Congo killing Africans on the behave of Europeans and Americans

  7. This is disgusting how many time we will have to tell your ignorant british BBC **s the genocide in Rwanda is called a 1994 genocide against Tutsi. Not Rwanda's genocide.

  8. The world stood by, some even aided and abetted the horrors in Rwanda. Similar horror is currently unfolding in what was Gaza; perpetrators and their accomplices are in Rwanda to "mourn" the Rwandan victims.
    The human absurdity has no limits.

  9. To Victoria Uwonkunda: I am glad that you went back to Rwanda! I did the same after 24 years. It has also healed me and brought peace. In addition, in Rwanda, I found inspiration in building a travel platform.

  10. All these years and you still write Rwanda genocide! So sad, it's tutsi genocide FYI. Saying rwanda genocide make it sound like every Rwandan was targeted in 1994 which is false information.

  11. The Rwandan genocide is a classic case of how humanity failed millions. The genocide still pains me. Where were African leaders when this indescribable horror happened? The then-Organisation for African Union (OAU)? Where was the international community? This story is reminder that history is a mirror to help us shape the present and the future. Powerful story.

  12. I'm wondering why didn't the Tutsis just secede from the country? It was clear the Hutus did not want them in Rwanda so why couldn't they just form their own country? Like when the Igbos were being killed in the North, they seceded and formed Biafra (although that caused civil war), but wouldn't the Hutus be glad to see them go? I dont get sha

  13. Now a wave of hatred against homosexual people is coming trough East Africa (especially in Uganda). Homosexual activity can be assessed in different ways (I personally condemn it), but Africans brutally persecute people even for having a different orientation, simply for being gay. Just read the comments to know how great their hatred is. This hate speech is confusingly similar to the RTLM