Jo Ingabire Moys tells Newsweek about surviving genocide against Tutsi people in Rwanda in 1994.
Myself, my mother, my sister and my brother made it out alive. My mother decided that we should split up to increase our chances of survival, so I moved with her to the countryside to live with an aunt.
Jo Ingabire Moys is a writer and director and co-founder of the Ishami Foundation, a charity that fights discrimination against refugees and immigrants. BAZIGAGA is her directorial debut.Many people assume that after the genocide Rwanda was a peaceful place, but that's just not true. There were still tensions in the country and it never felt like the war was really over.
While my school was exactly what I needed at that time, my teenage years were rough. I didn't really deal with much from my past, I essentially blocked it out. I thought: I'm in a new country, I'll adopt a different personality. I lost my accent somewhat; I was desperate to leave behind my Rwandan identity.
She was a traditional healer, a normal woman in her community, but when genocide broke out, she decided to use her reputation to convince people she was a witch doctor. Her performance was so convincing that Hutu forces really were scared of her and left her to it. She saved over 200 people by hiding them in her house and I thought it was just the most extraordinary thing I've ever heard.
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