Rescapés du génocide des Tutsi de 1994 : les singularités d'une parole

Faucheux, Amélie

12 septembre 2022

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Rescapés du génocide des Tutsi de 1994 : les singularités d'une parole

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Without reducing the singularity of the survivors to a unique way of being and expression, and without covering all the complexity and diversity of their experiences, we find specificities in the words of those in Rwanda who, for having been there in 1994, for having been hunted and escaped the massacres, tell their stories. Perhaps six main specificities, three in form, three in substance. A word first often carried by women, those who survived the killings the most, and where a tone of murmur of disconcerting delicacy is confused, almost apologizing for existing in the face of the immensity of the violence suffered and the courage to survive it. A word devastated by solitude, that of a physically and emotionally incandescent pain that isolates them, caught in the paradox of a feeling of paralysis in the face of the lack of words and the enigma of the event, and yet devoured by the desire to be heard: a word that demands time and repeats itself. A word finally, despite dissociative amnesias, marked by an almost autistic sense of detail, of an “eidetic”, photographic, extraordinary memory of the massacres. A word that also has its goals: the fight against indifference, the transmission of a universal History that passes through the intimate in the hope that the past will not be replayed and that wants to recall the presence of an incomparable ocean of deceased but whose mourning is partly possible thanks to the work of memory. Where telling is a fight against the ultimate disappearance, the ardent, indispensable desire to remind the killers that they did not succeed in completely killing those who remain alive, nor in completely killing those who are dead. Those whom the genocide wanted to strip of their dignity down to the smallest trace, from their clothes to the stones of their houses, but against whose will words stand to attest to existence and humanity.

https://francegenocidetutsi.fr/fgtshow.php?num=34832