UWAMAHORO Grace shared a testimony that still shakes the heart.
During the Genocide against the Tutsis in 1994, she heard faint moaning from the bushes near her home. A mother lay there, brutally cut with machetes on her forehead, neck, and legs. Too weak to move, she was slowly dying.
Yet her baby was still breastfeeding at her chest, unaware that her mother's life was fading.
With the little strength she had left, the mother begged Grace:
"Please, do me a favor. Take my baby. With God's help, may you both survive."
Grace did.
Today, that baby is alive. She defeated death before she could even speak.
I am really disappointed and irritated with the way young people (youth) have come to dismiss what it means to take a week of Kwibuka. It is disappointing to see us behave as though we don't have awareness of what's happening and the depth that Kwibuka holds. Shame!