“The soldiers chased us across the country. They had guns and bombs. We ran and fell over each other. We crawled. Some refugees suffocated. Many of us could not go any further. People would stop along the road. They would give up and die slowly. A mother would lie down with her baby. Her heart was still beating – I could see her chest rise –but her eyes would close. I had my baby on my back. I couldn’t hold her in my arms. I felt dead. I was starving and sick. I could not move any more. We had almost no clothes on, and nothing on our feet except sores. We were dirty. We smelled. I wanted it to be over. I wanted to die.”
" Durant notre parcours de calvaire dans les forêts impénétrables du Zaïre de fin 1996 jusqu'à ce jour. J'ai vécu moi-même l'apocalypse à Shabunda lors la destruction de nos camps de réfugiés de Kabakita et de Makese I & II par la coalition AFDL/APR, c'était début 1997. Beaucoup de réfugiés ont été massacrés et d'autres (parmis eux: enfants, femmes, vieillards, malades etc.) se sont faits noyés dans la rivière Urindi en essayant d'échapper ces forces du mal. "
Jean Paul Nzabonimpa
Témoin
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