On the 20th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, remembering a man who made history his mission.
NYAMAGABE, Rwanda — There was never a day that Emmanuel Murangira didn’t want to be with the bodies.
Not that he spent all day, every day at Murambi, the hilltop in Nyamagabe District, in rural Rwanda, where his family was killed in the 1994 genocide. He might idle, chatting with friends at a crossroads, pulling on a cigarette, or enjoying a Mutzig beer. But until the last year of his life, little could keep Murangira away from the job he had appointed himself to do, sweeping, litter-plucking, and keeping the bodies dry.
Rwanda’s Keeper of the Dead
