Georgette: We stayed in my home and I asked her not to get out. I brought her whatever she needed. After some days, I started going back to the market. She stayed in the house with the door and the windows closed.

Anne Marie: Sometime later, the soldiers started shooting in Kinama. Georgette said we should leave. Georgette: Not even one Hutu remained in Kinama. Everyone had to flee. It was impossible for Anne Marie to get to Cibitoke, where Tutsi have gone for safety. There was a risk of being killed on the way. She couldn’t go anywhere. I finally told her to come with me no matter what. We ran away together.

Anne Marie: We passed by Kidumburwe and took some of the rice we have cultivated there. Then we went to Tenga. We spent two nights there. Almost all the Hutu from Bujumbura were there. There was not a single Tutsi. I said to myself, "I am going to die here." Still Georgette went on comforting me.

Georgette: In Tenga my fellow Hutu got angry with me. They asked me why I brought along a Tutsi woman. I replied that she wasn’t a Tutsi, that all Tutsi have gone to Bujumbura town. “How come a Tutsi would be running away with a Hutu?”, I asked them. They were ready to kill everyone with a Tutsi name. I think that if I said that Anne Marie is a Tutsi, she wouldn’t have lasted for more than two minutes. At that time, a person could die for no reason. Just because you were of the wrong ethnic group. Just for that.

Anne Marie: That day an army plane flew over and started bombing us. Many people died.

Georgette: "We are all going to die," I told her. She was frightened but I assured her that she would not die alone.