Sometimes in April

Rwanda, 2004. Augustin is a primary school teacher. Today, April 7th, commemorates the start of the genocide that claimed almost one million victims ten years ago. At the time, Augustin, a Hutu soldier, was married to a Tutsi woman. On the morning of April 7th, 1994, after President Habyarimana’s plane was shot down during the night in Kigali, the Interahamwe militia started slaughtering all Tutsi and moderate Hutus. Augustin deserted his post to attempt to reach his family…