Thousand HIlls

Emilie, a little girl, 12 years old, lives in Rwanda, happily before 1994. She lives with her parents, two brothers and one sister. They were living in Butare town in the southern province.

7^th April, 1994 at 12.00am Emilie heard loud knocking on her door and her parents screaming ‘mutubabarire wee!’ She stayed in her room terrified till the screaming finally faded out into a mere whimper. She cried for her siblings and neighbours, but they are all extinguished in the raging fires of genocide.

The stench of charred bodies with her , Emilie fled to Gikongoro, she never ceased crying and asking for her family. The UN aid workers decided to shift Emilie to Norway as an asylum seeker. She is stigmatized, locals start jeering at her and she resorts to the use of drugs, as a self determined cure for loneliness, she falls prey to lust driven men who use her.

Jean from the local Red Cross meets Emilie one day, while she solicits men near Frederikstad. There begins a journey of change as she meets Emilie every week comforts and gives her hope. One day, Jean sees a syringe on the kitchen floor, its too late; the paramedics later find Emilie, silent and still.

A story created by Kenneth and Fify from Rwanda and lil ol me during the FK preparatory course.