The danger of becoming a ‘professional survivor’

The Convoy Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, translated by Ruth Diver

Open Borders, pp.288, 18.99

It was a relatively minor episode in a period marked by the killing of two African presidents, months of massacres in churches, schools and sports stadiums, a biblical exodus by much of the Hutu population, a cholera outbreak in refugee camps established in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and a rebel takeover of the country.

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TaggedButare, DRC, evacuation, Hutus, M23 rebel movement, massacre, Memoir, photographic evidence, rescue, Rwanda, Tutsis

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The danger of becoming a ‘professional survivor’

Though extraordinarily lucky to have escaped massacre in Rwanda in 1994, all Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse now seems to focus on is finding photographic evidence of her rescue

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