Rwanda : lettre à Sonia - Le Regard d'un enfant après les massacres

The massacres in Rwanda ceased in August 1994. In four months one out of ten Rwandais had been killed. Hundreds of thousands of others took refuge in the refugee camps. Since then, millions of Rwandais are trying to forget that mass madness. The children, especially, are trying in their own way to escape from the nightmare. In their name, a small group of young Rwandais, between eight and fifteen years old, have written a letter to an imaginary friend, Sonia, refugee in Europe. Accompanying views filmed in two villages in the south of Rwanda in October 1994, they tell what they have lived through and, above all, they give an unexpected aspect of the country. The teachers were strict, the members of the religious orders did not preach of love. It shows a different Rwanda, far from the horrors of the screen, closer to the daily life of a country where we wonder whether death is not still on the prowl.