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Jacqueline Mukansonera (born 1963) is a Rwandan nurse. An ethnic Hutu, she saved the Tutsi woman Profile of Yolande Mukagasana, Candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize 2010
benerwanda.org. Yolande had turned to her for help at the hospital where Jacqueline worked as a nurse, and she was one of the first targets of the Hutu violence because she was seen as a member of the Tutsi
Jacqueline Mukansonera on Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee - Gariwo
Jacqueline Mukansonera and her rescue act in the site of the Alexander Langer Foundation
Jacqueline Mukansonera in the Padua Garden of the Righteous
"La morte non mi ha voluta" ("Death didn't want me"), Memoir by Yolande Mukagasana
Downloadable chapters of Yolande Mukagasana's book
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Jacqueline Mukansonera (born 1963) is a Rwandan nurse. An ethnic Hutu, she saved the Tutsi woman Yolande Mukagasana
Yolande Mukagasana (born 6 September 1954) is a Rwandan writer writing in French who is a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
She was a Tutsi nurse and anaesthetist working at a hospital in Kigali. She fled to Belgium
Bel ...
from being killed during the Rwandan genocide in 1994.benerwanda.org. Yolande had turned to her for help at the hospital where Jacqueline worked as a nurse, and she was one of the first targets of the Hutu violence because she was seen as a member of the Tutsi
intelligentsia
The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the in ...
. Jacqueline concealed her in the kitchen of her home for 11 days, neither of the two women spoke to one another during the stay out of fear of discovery. Jacqueline later bribed a policeman and managed to provide Yolande with falsified documents which said she was Hutu.
Jacqueline still lives in Rwanda, where she is a human rights activist and founder of the “Jya Mubandi Mwana” association which helps disabled children.
In 1998 Jacqueline Mukansonera and Yolande Mukagasana received the "Alexander Langer
Alexander Langer (22 February 1946 – 3 July 1995) was an Italian journalist, peace activist, politician, translator, and teacher.
Biography
Born on 22 February 1946 in Sterzing, South Tyrol, a province of Italy inhabited by a German-speaking ...
Testimonial Award" in Bolzano. The award was given with the motivation that Jacqueline had put her own life at risk to save Yolande, at the time a complete stranger, thus proving that there is room for personal responsibility even in the midst of awful and extreme genocidal violence. Where as the motivation behind giving the prize to Yolande was her determination to survive, not only for her own sake, but also to make sure the events she was forced to suffer through (such as losing her entire family to the violence) would not be repeated.
Bibliography
Rwanda. Memorie di un genocidio, Photographs by Livio Senigalliesi, introduction by Daniele Scaglione, published by Impronta Grafica, Milan, 2004References
External links
Jacqueline Mukansonera on Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee - Gariwo
Jacqueline Mukansonera and her rescue act in the site of the Alexander Langer Foundation
Jacqueline Mukansonera in the Padua Garden of the Righteous
"La morte non mi ha voluta" ("Death didn't want me"), Memoir by Yolande Mukagasana
Downloadable chapters of Yolande Mukagasana's book
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