The specificities of the genocide of the Tutsi

«In fact, I came back the next morning at 8:00 am on the 23rd and when I drove back to the university hospital of Butare, I saw a lot of soldiers moving and there were two or three trucks and people in pink uniforms. It was about the prisoners. Those who wore pink uniforms were prisoners who transported the bodies and whom they threw in trucks. I asked: "What happened here?" And the Rwandan MSF staff replied: "Last night, there were 40 Tutsi patients who were brought in a group by militiamen. [... ]” And the corpses you see there are therefore bodies of these patients, of these sick people. [... ] And they caught two of my nurses, Nadine and Rose. ... I asked them: “Why do you want to bring my nurses? You can’t bring them, these nurses have treated your soldiers, treated everyone.” [... ] I came back to the hospital, it was already around 4:00 pm and, that time [...] I was told that Nadine and Rose, who were Tutsi, had been brought in and beaten to death behind the hospital. They also told me that Sabine had been brought in and killed as well. I knew Sabine’s ethnicity. She was Hutu, Sabine. She worked for these soldiers, she treated these soldiers. So I was very shocked. I said: “But why did they kill Sabine?” Sabine was seven months pregnant, she was Hutu, but her husband was Tutsi. The child, I was told that in Rwanda, the child who is born is of the same ethnic origin as his father. That’s why Sabine had to be killed because the unborn child would be Tutsi. I looked around, my team was there and then we brought the people in groups of three, five. They were brought behind the hospital, they killed them; we heard the screams. I told the staff of my team: "We are leaving from here."