Rwanda: 30 years later, the chilling story of genocide survivors

Thirty years ago, while hiding from the machetes that killed his father, two of his brothers and an estimated 800,000 others during the genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi minority, Pascal Kanyemera made a deal with God. “Please, if I survive one more week, I will give you 100 Rwandan francs.”

God listened, and the 16-year-old prayed again. And again. And again, until the killings stopped in July 1994.

“At the end of the genocide, I…