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The elephant in the house cannot be ignored. This campaign must with urgency address the with engagement with activists. Otherwise, it will fracture the credibility on other issues and become her Fact is, she is still and has to fringe admin policy. But, there is space for her to enter from another angle. I think this is where I say HOPE.
Perhaps a televised discussion with someone.

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* A cousin had a canoe, but it would cost her. And she had no money. So she found someone who could write – Dusabimana was illiterate – and asked them to draft a contract: I, Dusabimana, will give you my goats for your canoe. That night, she snuck the men to the lakeshore and sent them off in the canoe, she hoped, to safety

* ... all told, she says she saved 12 lives during the spring of 1994 ...

#Africa #Rawanda #genocide RwandanGenocide #humanity #hero

[Rwanda] As a brutal genocide raged around her, Josephine smuggled 12 people to safety
npr.org/2024/05/13/1247869437/

* [1994] Rwandan genocide: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_

* Josephine Dusabimana, a Hutu, risked her life / the life of her family to help Tutsi men, women,nd children escape as hundreds of thousands were killed

* Dusabimana believes her poverty shielded her from suspicion