Sylvie Kinigi

"We cannot succeed when half of us is held back."

"It’s very difficult to say who has power now. The army does not seem to want to lose it. I have no military, no police force, and no control of the media. I have nothing."

"I cannot approve of my government entering into negotiations with people who assassinated our leaders."

"We entered into democracy without having the means of dealing with it. The process was too rapid. There was no time to form political leaders. So parties formed on the simple criteria of ethnicity. With Rwanda, we have in common inexperience in democracy and ineptness in managing power."