Word: domitila
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...will have to face his community and the families of those he killed. "It weighs heavily on my mind," he says. "They might even be angry enough to kill me, but I have to try to ask them to forgive me." It isn't forgiveness that concerns Kigali resident Domitila Nyirakamanzi - it's fear of renewed violence, and anger that the government isn't helping victims like her. Nyirakamanzi, 56, lived through a killing spree in the first few days of the genocide. Her right hand is scarred with machete wounds; a bullet is still lodged there. When the Hutu...
...earth moved," recalled Sergio Cano, a laborer. "We thought the gringos had started bombing." The blast in the Nicaraguan capital signaled neither an earthquake nor an armed invasion from the north but an unusually bold contra attack on an electrical tower. While residents slumbered in the dusty neighborhood of Domitila Lugo, rebels had scaled the high-voltage pylon and placed explosives on the metal crossbars. The explosion shattered windows and broke dishes in nearby homes, but no one was hurt. Indeed, electrical service was not even interrupted, and the tower remained standing...
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