1994 Rwandan genocide testimony by Donatha Uwamahoro

Donatha Uwamahoro, a girl from Cellule Bulambi, Bibungo Sector of Commune Mugina in Gitarama Prefecture, explains how her family escaped during the Rwandan Genocide to a Catholic priest's home in Mugina Commune. Many of the people hiding in the nearby church were killed. Donatha escaped to her relatives in Mukinga and hid first in the bush and then in the ceiling of a house. She was later arrested, taken with other children to a pit next to a road, and clubbed on the head. Donatha was the only child to survive this attack; the others were killed and thrown into the pit. After the genocide came to an end, she went to live with a paternal uncle.