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Zura Karuhimbi
11 quotes
“No one was killed among those I took in. I fearlessly confronted Interahamwe whenever they would want to enter my enclosure to kill. I warned them that if they entered they would face the anger and incur the wrath of Nyabingi (a powerful spirit in folklore).”
Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To instill fear among the attackers, I would anoint my hands with herbs that cause body irritation and touch them. Because they didn’t know the existence of such herbs, whenever I touched them, they got upset and I used to tell them that it was Nyabingi doing it. And to supplement it, I would go back in the house, shake whatever I could find, including metals and bags and tell the people I was hiding to scream. Then I told the killers that the voices were of my spirits and that they were angrier against them. The killers would flee in fright.”
Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with The New Times (2014)
“I put them here in the compound and covered them with dry leaves of beans and baskets. I hid so many people that I don’t know some of their names. I hid little babies I found on the backs of their dead mothers, and I brought them here. ... I hid those people seriously. I’d prepare some magic, and when the killers came, I’d tell them I would kill them. I told them no Tutsis had come to my house—that no one comes in my house—while all the time they were all inside.”
Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They [the Interahamwe] killed my firstborn, my son Hanganimana; and my other daughter, Ugiriwabo, was poisoned and died. People would mock me, saying, ‘You hid people, but your own children were killed,’ and I replied to them, saying, ‘Our days to pass away are not the same. God is the only one who understands why these things happen.’”
Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is the most important thing. Find someone to love and the future will always be bright.”
Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Vice (2014)
“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.”
Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Rwanda Today (2014)
“If they are to die, I die with them.”
Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money could not cost me lives of Rwandans.”
Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One day, President Paul Kagame visited our village and said if everyone was a witch doctor like me, genocide could not have happened.”
Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with KT Press (15 April 2015)
“You can not die, you can not give up, we can defeat these evil people.”
Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in her nomination for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize