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Updated January 27, 2021
Bisesero genocide survivors Narcisse Kabanda (R) and Aaron Mukomeza (L) pose for a portrait in Bisesero, western Rwanda, on December 2, 2020. – Narcisse Kabanda says that it gives them strength every time they hear that people on the run who carried out the genocide have been arrested. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP)
A stunned silence, and then cries of joy ring out in the green Bisesero hills.
Survivors of one of the most terrible episodes of the genocide in Rwanda have just spotted Alain Gauthier — their lifeline to justice.
“I’ve come to say ‘turikumwe’ (“we are together”) and that you mustn’t lose heart or hope,” the 72-year-old Frenchman tells them.