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For a long time I hid my handicap, because I don’t want to add to my problems. But I had to adapt, and I did so by showing people I was normal. I couldn’t do anything about my colour, but I could be good at sport.

— Jean-Baptiste Alaize

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I could never have imagined someone like him, so full of love, so full of opportunities, would come to look for me, but he did.

My brother [Julien] is a Hutu and he also suffered in a different way.

Three hours later, at 8pm, they came back. We heard lots of shouting and screaming and saw houses on fire and people everywhere. Suddenly they were doing what they said they’d do, killing everyone.

I was not a normal child. I was traumatised from the war, I had had no mother’s love, I didn’t always behave well. But my parents gave me everything I had lost: love and self-confidence.

My leg injury was too severe; I had to have it amputated.

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