Our driver, Olivier, is a child survivor of the genocide in Rwanda.
He was ten years old when the genocide was over, and all that was left of his family was his four year old sister Olive, and an eight year old cousin: no parents, no grandparents, no aunts and no uncles. These three children had no adults in their life, and as far as I can determine, lived in their parents' house, in the same neighbourhood as the people who tried to kill them, and raised themselves alone after the genocide.
Olivier has devoted his life to his sister, driving a bus to put her through university, which she has just finished.
He does not talk about the genocide and does not enter any of the genocide memorials that we visit, prefering instead to wait outside.
He was ten years old when the genocide was over, and all that was left of his family was his four year old sister Olive, and an eight year old cousin: no parents, no grandparents, no aunts and no uncles. These three children had no adults in their life, and as far as I can determine, lived in their parents' house, in the same neighbourhood as the people who tried to kill them, and raised themselves alone after the genocide.
Olivier has devoted his life to his sister, driving a bus to put her through university, which she has just finished.
He does not talk about the genocide and does not enter any of the genocide memorials that we visit, prefering instead to wait outside.
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