Miracle in Kigali

 How does it feel to wake up every single morning for over three months facing the prospect that you and your newborn baby will almost certainly be brutally murdered that day?

This was the experience of Illuminée Nganemariya, a young Tutsi bride, now living in Norwich, England.  By a seeming miracle Illuminée, and her son Roger survived the 1994 attempt by Rwanda’s Hutu extremists to wipe their Tutsi neighbours from the face of the earth.

Illuminée existed for 100 days in the living hell of Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, after watching her husband being dragged away to be killed by friends who had celebrated their wedding with them a month earlier.

Then she embarked on a horrific journey through the barbaric holocaust with her newborn son strapped to her back. At any moment a wrong move would have seen them join the one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus who were murdered in three months.

Illuminée Nganemariya is a survivor. She has spent the last decade, living in Norwich, dealing with the trauma of her 100-day nightmare.

With the assistance of Paul Dickson, Illuminée has recounted her and Roger's ordeal in Miracle in Kigali.

It is one woman’s story of enormous personal courage and character -- but most of all it is testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit.

Over the last 18 months, Roger has embarked on a film and TV  career, appearing in the feature film, Africa United, the BBC docu-drama Planet of the Apemen and a forthcoming BBC3 TV documentary about his return to Rwanda called Roger:Genocide Baby, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012lttt.

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