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1925–2018
Zura Karuhimbi (c. 1925 – 17 December 2018) was a Rwandan woman who saved more than 100 people from being killed by Hutu militias during the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. A traditional healer, she hid the refugees in her house and deterred attackers by masquerading as a witch.
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You can not die, you can not give up, we can defeat these evil people.
Love is the most important thing. Find someone to love and the future will always be bright.
Interview with Vice (2014)
I only believed in one God and the thing of magical power was just an invention and cover I was using to save lives. I am not a witch doctor.
Interview with The New Times (2014)
Money could not cost me lives of Rwandans.
One day, President Paul Kagame visited our village and said if everyone was a witch doctor like me, genocide could not have happened.
If they are to die, I die with them.
During the genocide, I saw the darkness of a man's heart. I remember one Saturday, they came back again, I confronted them as usual, warning them that by killing the refugees in my house, they were digging their own graves.
Interview with Rwanda Today (2014)
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