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Article: THE MIRACLE OF RWANDA ; A survivor's story ++ Immaculee Ilibagiza is a latter-day Anne Frank. The daughter of two devout Catholic Tutsis, she was a prime target for the Hutu death squads who brought their genocidal terror to the African country in 1994. She survived, hidden for three months in the sweltering heat of a tiny bathroom. Now her remarkable story is being told on the Edinburgh stage. Jerome Taylor reports
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- The Independent - London
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- August 11, 2007
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The man who came closest to killing Immaculee Ilibagiza never
knew how near he had got to his prey. He was a machete-wielding
member of the Interahamwe, the Hutu death squads that prowled the
length and breadth of Rwanda during the country's brutal genocide
looking for what they called "cockroaches", those members of the
Tutsi tribe they had sworn to destroy.
Ms Ilibagiza was in hiding. For 91 days she and seven other Tutsi
women were crammed into a stiflingly hot bathroom as the orgy of
looting, rape and murder that swept through the country in 1994
raged outside. Ms Ilibagiza, the daughter of two prominent Catholic
Tutsi teachers, was a prized target. As they teetered on the edge of ...