The Rwanda genocide-View as Slideshow

APR 5, 2014 00:59 UTC

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT ADVISORY. Scenes from the genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath, which began twenty years ago this week. 38 PHOTOS

THE SURVIVOR: “Why are you killing us? We used to be friends”

Jeanette Mukabyagaju: “They chose people to kill according to their level: how strong you are, how educated, how rich. Most of the time, they chose people from the area they belonged.” Photo taken in Mbyo, Rwanda, Marchl 21, 2014. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Katy Migiro

Author: Katy Migiro-Wed, 2 Apr 2014

MBYO, Rwanda – Jeanette Mukabyagaju was 15 and living with her parents and six older siblings in Gitarama, 50 km from Kigali, when the genocide started in April 1994. She recalls the night Hutu extremists first came to her home and the slaughter that followed.

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