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Evening Standard
Casey Cooper-Fiske

Lindsey Hilsum recalls taking woman and children’s last words in Rwanda genocide

Lindsey Hilsum has spoken about her experiences in Rwanda on Desert Island Discs (Lauren Hurley/PA) - (PA Archive)

Journalist Lindsey Hilsum has recalled taking down the last words of a woman and her children who knew “they were going to die” in the Rwanda genocide in 1994.

The 66-year-old said she had received calls from friends in the African country, where she had been living and working for two months previously, asking if she could save them, while speaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.

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