“Escape from the genocide in Rwanda”
“Of 25 years ago started the genocide of 800 000 people in the african country of Rwanda.”
“– That neighbour could kill neighbour. When I meet people and hear their stories, so it is difficult to get into it, ” says security Day Bohlin and shakes his head.”
“He and his family lived in Rwanda when the violence broke out.”
“– We were inside on our fifth year in Rwanda, and thought that we were accustomed to the country and things that happened there, ” he says.”
“But no one could be prepared for what happened.”
“On 6 april 1994, president Habyarimana, who belonged to the ethnic group hutu, on the way home from Tanzania when his plane was shot down. He had just said yes to a unity government with the tutsidominerade movement Rwandan patriotic front (FPR). The event is seen as the start of the tremendous violence that then broke out, which had its foundation in an ancient power struggle between hutus and tutsis. The violence lasted three months, a period which was described as one of history’s worst genocide.”
“After the crash phone rang in the middle of the night at the home of the family Bohlin, who lived in the capital city of Kigali. Day Bohlin worked as a construction manager and is administratively responsible for the Pingstmissionens development cooperation (PMU) in Rwanda.”
“It was the leader of the country’s pingströrelse who called to tell us that the president was dead and to call the family to stay inside.”
“– as soon As the light came in the morning we heard since the shootings, and heavier bombsalvor. We lived quite near a major road and used to hear the traffic almost around the clock, but then it was all quiet except skottsalvorna.”
“They had previously lived in a different part of the country in three years. In the meantime, in Kigali had been poor with electricity, water and telephone connections, but a week after the president’s plane was shot down worked the communications.”
“– Many rwandan friends called and asked how it went for us. They also told me about what happened and warned us to go out.”
“Several of his friends did not survive the genocide, the family got to know.”
“After six days, called the swiss embassy and announced that you had received in the mission to retrieve the family. The children were told to lie on the on the car floor to avoid having to see the devastation outside bilfönstren while Day Bohlin drove one of the cars to the airport and tried to shield the gaze from the surrounding area as best we could. Both adults and children lay dead after the roads.”
” We saw quite a lot of it has happened. Similar to the low for the road. We could not stay, but also noted that the city looked much like it did in the past. I do not think that a shop window was shattered even.”
“Bilkonvojen ran at fast pace towards a ambassadörsresidens.”
“– From the plot, we had great views of one of the hills of Kigali. Then there was someone who said ”
“the Group were then on a truck to the airport, in the pouring rain and under the sky.”
“the Plan went shuttling between Kigali and Nairobi in Kenya.”
” My wife asked again in the plane if I thought that we could be shot down, but I said no to calm her. At the same time we heard a heavy, muffled gunfire.”
“It took several weeks before the family Bohlin, who then come home to Sweden, began to understand how extensive the violence was in Rwanda. At the same time they got reports of acquaintances who have been killed.”
“– A friend was a moderate hutu who advocated the separation of powers, and the sustained not. He had to put life together with his whole family. Wife and five or six children, ” he says.”
“HH: Changed your view of people after all that happened in 1994?”
“– In some ways it has changed my view of people for one marvel at how much evil people can do. But you can also marvel at how much good people can do, ” says Dag Bohlin.”
“an Estimated 800 000 people were killed during the genocide in Rwanda in the spring of 1994. It was headed by extremnationalister from allow for the full implementation hutu.”
“most of The victims were the tutsis, but also hutus who were seen as collaborators were murdered.”
“the Genocide was carefully planned, but the trigger was the shooting down – unclear by whom – of the aircraft then hutupresidenten Habyarimana and his burundiske colleague, Cyprien Ntaryamira were travelling in. Then president Habyarimana signed a peace treaty with the tutsigerillan FPR, which some saw as a betrayal.”
“After three months of killing plunged the FPR regime. Today is the FPR the party that controls the country.”
“In december of 2018 was a French investigation of attack against the president in 1994, down in the absence of evidence. The investigation started in 1998 at the request of the relatives of the French crew members who were on the plane.”
“Rwanda is located just south of the equator and is called the thousand hills country, and sometimes Africa’s Switzerland.”
“It is a beautiful and well-maintained country and one of Africa’s least corrupt countries. On paper it is a democracy, but Rwanda has since the turn of the millennium has gone in an increasingly authoritarian direction.”
“The former gerillaledaren Paul Kagame is the president of the country since the year 2000.”
“Rwanda is considered to have good potential to soon reach the goal that all children will start school. Already now begin to 98 per cent of girls in primary school, and a slightly lower proportion of boys.”
“the Country is the african mainland’s most densely populated with over 12 million inhabitants in the 26 338 square kilometres, slightly larger than the Valleys. In the capital, Kigali, is just over a million inhabitants.”
“In the 1930s, it was decided that all rwandiers speech would be inscribed on their id-documents. Today it is illegal to place individual people in communities, and it is forbidden to stir up hatred.”
“About two-thirds of the rwandierna are christians.”
“Source: Landguidenu002FUI”
