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Article: The long road home ; A young Tutsi fleeing genocide ends up on the streets of N.Y., goes to med school, and returns to start a clinic
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2009
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On Oct. 22, 1993, a sensitive young Burundian medical student
working at a rural hospital was surprised to discover at the start
of his shift that most of the staff had vanished. He soon learned
the reason: The nation's president, a Hutu, had been assassinated,
and all over the country Hutus were killing Tutsis.
The young Tutsi intern, who until middle school didn't know the
difference between Hutus and Tutsis, got trapped at the hospital and
is alive today because he hid under his bed but forgot to close the
door to his room. From this the murderers concluded that he'd fled -
which he did accomplish after they left. Unfortunately, his troubles
were only beginning. In a nightmarish flight ...