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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Ben Doherty, Dunja Karagic and Amos Roberts

‘They were burying us as if nothing happened’: why Frida Umuhoza speaks about her family’s slaughter

Frida Umuhoza, a survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, holding one of her mother’s traditional  dresses.
Frida Umuhoza, a survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda who now lives in Melbourne, holding one of her mother’s traditional dresses. Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian

“The one image that tormented me for years,” says Frida Umuhoza, “was my mother’s head being chopped off as she was beheaded.”

Her words are a weight on the quiet of a school auditorium in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. “Those memories,” she says, “those images don’t leave you.”

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