Open AccessMarie. Overleven met de dood
Author(s) -
Patrick Van Damme
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
avrug-bulletin/afrika focus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0772-084X
pISSN - 0772-0793
DOI - 10.21825/af.v29i2.4853
Subject(s) - girl , refugee , genocide , history , sociology , criminology , law , political science , psychology , developmental psychology
This book brings us the story of Marie, who was a young girl when the Rwanda genocide crisis broke out in 1994. The book is the result of a number of conversations between Marie and Peter Verlinden, the main co-author. The work is a very personal and personalised account of what happened on and after April 6. It starts with the internal flight, within Rwanda, and the journey to the Congolese rainforest, starting in October 1996. This was the moment when the refugee camps in eastern Congo were attacked by the Rwanda army of president Paul Kagame. It has been documented that his soldiers chased down and killed the majority of refugees, numbering more than 200,000 according to a report by the United Nations. According to survivors and other eye witnesses the actual number was probably double that.