This is my testimony. It is the story of a Rwandan family caught up in the larger, tumultuous, and often tragic story of Rwanda. Though the history of Rwanda as a nation spans centuries, this testimony casts a glance at the two violent revolutions (1959, 1990) and their catastrophic consequences that have affected every Rwandan and Rwanda's neighbors in the Great Lakes region of central Africa. Each revolution began with a promise, only to betray it. We repeatedly have become a nation of "losers and winners," of "perpetrators and victims," with individuals, families, communities and ethnic...

Mu gihe Kagame yivugiye ko azaturasa kumugaragaro, aduhiga n'abicanyi be, twagombye gushikama tukamuhangara, nk'uko Dawudi yahangaye igihangange Goliyati, avuga ati: "Uyu mufilistine ni nde uhangara ingabo z'Uwiteka Imana." Turimo turubaka ingabo zikomeye zigizwe n'abanyarwanda bibohoye, bakoresheje intwaro y'amahoro, ukuri no gushyira hamwe. Igihangange kizatsindwa vuba. Banyarwanda, Banyarwandakazi, ndabakangurira kwica umudayimoni wo guhora mwirega no guhorana ipfunwe, guhora mwumva ko ari "Twebwe na Bariya," ukwikunda n'inda nini, guhora mwumva ko bazabibakorera, ubwoba no kuzarira, no...