Vivien Latour

1 month ago | international.la-croix.com | Vivien Latour

The stands at the old École Technique Officielle (ETO) soccer field arepacked. As they do every April 11, Rwandans gather here to take part in acommemorative march retracing the “death march” taken by more than 2,000 Tutsisto Nyanza, a suburb of Kigali just over two miles away. It was April 1994. Theday after Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana’s plane was shot down, thecapital erupted in violence. Thousands of Tutsis—and some moderate Hutus—fledin search of safety.