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I entered the church knowing that nobody would have the courage to attack a holy place.

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Shortly after we had entered, my eldest child, who was with my mother-in-law, they stabbed

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him with a sharp stick below his ear.

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My mother-in-law told me that my son had died.

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I told her, don't cry, I think we are in trouble, I don't know if we ourselves are going to

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survive.

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She laid the body down.

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They also threw bricks at us through the holes.

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I put my baby down and I lay down beside the altar.

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They entered and they were attacking people, chopping people.

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The miracle that happened to me, I asked God to help me cross the Red Sea.

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Then they killed a baby and threw it on me.

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Now they couldn't tell if I was alive or not because of the dead bodies.

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Angelique Mukavichizi is a survivor of the genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1994.

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In a barbaric 100 days of mass killings, an estimated 1 million Tutsi men, women and children

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were slaughtered at the hands of government soldiers and intra-Hamwe militia.

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Twelve years on, survivors are barely coping with the physical and mental scars.

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Many women were subjected to extreme sexual violence, raped by militia or mutilated so

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they could never bear Tutsi children.

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And in what is perhaps the genocide's cruelest legacy, many female survivors are now infected

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with HIV.

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The genocide continues to leave orphans.

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Many of these children, themselves HIV positive, are cared for now by grandparents or neighbours.

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Travelling through Rwanda today, it's difficult to comprehend that these are not chronicles

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from the country's dark age.

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The atrocities took place just over a decade ago.

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During the genocide, the international community abandoned us Rwandans.

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They saw everything as it was happening.

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They saw it on their televisions, they had it on their radios, but they still took it

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as some killings between savages.

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This hurts us a lot.

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If you look at the way the international community reacted to the tsunami in Indonesia or elsewhere,

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that's different from what they did here in Rwanda.

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For most Rwandans, there would be no peace without justice.

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Justice means capturing and punishing the perpetrators of the genocide.

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Many of the suspected architects of the killings fled Rwanda in late 1994.

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As a judicial response, the UN established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,

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or ICTOR, in neighbouring Tanzania, so that suspects apprehended could be brought to justice

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on an international stage.