Anne Marie: We survived the attack on Tenga and left for Rubirizi. She held my hand. She spent so much time on protecting me that she paid less attention to her children. I stayed with her in Rubrizi and she treated me like a princess.

Georgette: In Rubirizi they again started accusing me of having brought a Tutsi with me. "Anne Marie is a Hutu like you," I told them. "If you kill her, you will be making a mistake." We stayed together. If we had not, they would have killed her immediately.

Anne Marie: One day, I heard there was a plot to get me killed. I went to Georgette. "This man has paid for a crate of beer," I told her, "He wants me to deliver it to a place where he would kill me." Georgette went to speak to him. "I have already been paid to kill her," he told Georgette. I know that he killed another Tutsi who was living in Rubirizi, a very old woman.

Georgette: Eventually we were chased out of Rubirizi and we went at Mubone. Finally, after seven months as internal refugees we were able to return back to Kinama.

Anne Marie: Laurent Gahungu began organizing us.

Georgette: At that point in Kinama there were only Hutu. In Cibitoke were the Tutsi who fled the Hutu neighbourhoods, and no Hutu. The Kinama women decided that we can’t live here without our former Tutsi neighbours. We became like the 'wise women' of the village. Men were somehow absent. At that time, any time a man to tried to do anything special, he was automatically killed.

We formed Abaniki, a local association that welcomes back displaced families and rebuilds destroyed homes. We tried to get Tutsi women who left Kinama for Chibitoke to come back. We begun counting the households abandoned by the Hutu in Cibitoke and the ones abandoned by the Tutsi in Kinama. The fact that Anne Marie was with us was helpful in persuading them to return. When the Tutsi in Cibitoke saw her, they were astonished. "How come you are still alive?" they asked her.