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Podcast: The Spiritual Perspective
Episode: 35: Consolee Nishimwe on Surviving Genocide and How She Was Able to Heal Herself and Find Hope
Description: When the word “genocide” comes to mind, one might think these heinous acts occurred deep in history. Yet they’ve occurred as recently as 1994, when 800,000 innocent Tutsi Rwandans were attacked by their fellow countrymen. Today, we speak to Consolee Nishimwe about her experience surviving the Rwandan Genocide and how her life as a survivor. We open the show by learning about the history between the Hutu and Tutsi social classes and find out how Belgian colonial powers turned these two groups against one another. Consolee then expands on this, describing her childhood as a “privileged” Tutsi, and h...