Genocide survivors open up in books, films

Books by Rwanda's genocide survivors

Some of the books written by genocide survivors on sale at the Ikirezi bookshop in Kigali. PHOTO | MOSES GAHIGI | NMG

The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi not only shattered lives of those who survived it, but 28 years later it still has a lingering effect on them and how they cope with it.

Some fled abroad, to be as far away as possible from the horror and locked away the memories by refusing to share what they witnessed, as a coping mechanism and one way of starting afresh.