Rwanda: Karuhimbi Pretended to Be a Witchdoctor and Saved Tutsi

ZULA KArUHIMBI still lives in the same old mud and wattle house she used to stay in years ago. It is a small house with two rooms. The wooden door is rickety and its smaller windows, about the size of an iPad, testify of the house's age.

It is hard to believe that more than 100 people escaped death by hiding in this tiny house during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. But that is what happened when Karuhimbi decided to challenge Interahamwe militia who were murdering Tutsi.

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