Valentina's Nightmare

Wednesday night I attended an event called Valentina's Nightmare, which showed a documentary about the Rwanda genocide, and the survivors like Valentina. Valentina was a Tutsi, whose family escaped to a church in Nyarubuye from the Hutu killers. Valentina watched her father and brother murder in front of her eyes. Her mother was also killed, but not in front of Valentina.  Valentina hid under her mother's and other dead bodies for 43 days. Her hand was had been chopped off when she tried to shield her head from the machete of a Hutu. She had a part of her head chopped off when trying to shield it, and was thought dead, but she lived. Watching the documentary, she looked so angry, and upset, but looking at her today, she looks so happy. I wanted to cry through out the event, because it was amazing how much she went through, and the people of the Rwanda genocide went through. And, here I was looking at this strong woman, and I thought, if she can get through anything, so can I.




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For more information about Valentina's story, look to the right at links.