You know, one of the students in my class
was very, very extremist.
And he kept calling
and Tutsis as cockroaches.
“Cockroaches” is -- inyenzi is,
inyenzi because of translation,
but -- cockroaches is a small, uh,
a small insect
which actually eat,
make mess at home and eat the food,
uh, they eat all the food.
It has a bad very bad smell, it eat
on your clothes of home, things like that.
But they are so bad, bad, bad insect.
And where they live, they are -- if you have
three, four cockroaches in your, in your,
in your home, you had always bad smell there.
So calling you cockroach, it's very, very bad for a student.
It’s like you smell bad, you're making mess.
You're,
you're very, very disturbing
for human being at home.
So they organized actually
they organize actually
after school.
They had many, many Hutu students, they had sticks
and then they want to beat the Tutsis when they go out to their class,
they beat them, but
yes, they beat them.
I was not part of it because I was playing football.
I stayed at school playing football,
but other students, they were beaten
and sent to the hospital.
So I was telling my mom
that incident that, what happened, she knew that.
But I would say that why does this
keep happening?
So those children were punished -- were not punished.
And I was expecting the director of school to punish them or to,
uh, to sack them from, from school.
But he didn't do that.