
Noel Zihabamwe was nine years old when he lay down in the back of a ute, spreading the blood of other young victims on his neck as he pretended to be dead to escape death in Rwanda.
It was the height of the 100-day genocide that claimed about 800,000 lives in April 1994 when members of the majority ethnic Hutus and minority Tutsis and Twa were killed in a bloodbath perpetrated by extremist militias.