Résumé du documentaire :
Imagine. Your husband has been brutally murdered by your neighbours. How do you respond? Scottish nurse, Lesley Bilinda, is still asking that question. She is determined to track down and meet the killers of her Rwandan husband, Charles, who disappeared during the 1994 genocide. As she prepares to return to Rwanda, her mind is full of questions. Can she find Charles’ killers? What will she do if she does find them?
“I met Charles when I was working as a nurse in Rwanda,” confides Lesley Bilinda. “We married in Rwanda and wanted to spend the rest of our lives there.” But their life together was shattered as genocide swept the country. In a hundred days of violence, around a million were killed. On the 21st April 1994, at the height of the Rwandan genocide, Charles Bilinda was abducted. He was never seen again.
Lesley decides to visit the Murambi Genocide Memorial site to confront for herself the scale of the genocide. Her guide round the Memorial site is Emanuel, one of just four survivors from a massacre which killed 50,000. “There’s a room here full of kids,” she sobs, confronted by the sight of human bodies on open display. The full horror of the genocide – and Charles’ death - brings Lesley to her knees.
Note personnelle : la scène où Lesly visite le site mémorial de Murambi est insupportable. Ce qui frappe le plus sur ce site, c'est la tranquillité qui y règne au point qu'on a du mal à s'imaginer comment tant d'atrocité ait pu s'y produire. Les quelques 1.000 corps exposés sont le témoignage de ces atrocités.
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