Marie Béatrice UMUTESI An author from Rwanda writing in French [Return to French — Page originale en français]

Marie Béatrice Umutesi was born in Byumba in 1959. A Sociologist by training, she worked in the field of rural development before being forced to flee to Kivu in 1994. In 1996 the refugee camps were destroyed by the FPR and she had to flee once more. Since 1998 she has lived in Belgium. (From book cover)

Publications

Fuir ou mourir au Zaire. Le vécu d'une réfugiée Rwandaise [Surviving the slaughter : the ordeal of a Rwandan refugee in Zaire.]. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Autobiography.

Hunted by the Rwandan soldiers of the FPR, the Rwandan refugees journeyed across the vast territory of Congo, from East to West, to die of hunger, sickness and exhaustion; this in full view of and with the knowledge of the wide international community which, just three years before, had witnessed the genocide of the Tutsis and the massacre of the Hutu 'moderates' of Rwanda, The author, a refugee among the hundreds of thousands of the condemned, succeeded in coming through all the massacres and pitfalls along the way. She records her testimony so that the story of this massive pursuit of humankind might one day be told and that those responsible, the politicians and military, may be pursued for their crimes against humanity. (From book cover)

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