"We were hiding in our house in Nyamirambo after hearing my name being read among those who had been killed. We had to bribe the police every day to remain hidden. Mr Rusesabagina, who was a family friend, called to see if we were alive. After learning that we were alive, he sent a soldier to pick us up and take us to Hotel Mille Collines. It was a dangerous journey, so we had to be driven one by one and bribed our way through the roadblocks and lied that we were Hutu. It was a miracle that we arrived at the hotel."
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Women born in the 1950sWomen politicians in RwandaGovernment ministers of RwandaWomen physicians from Rwanda
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Rusesabagina was not a hero, The East African (09 September 2020)
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