![]() A year later, working through several international organizations, the sisters finally find out that their parents have also survived the genocide. In 2000, the International Organization for Migration helps the sisters immigrate to the United States. People are dying all around them, but they survive. There they are swept into a sea of refugees with no immediate access to shelter, food, or other supplies.įor the next six years, Clemantine and her sister shuttle between refugee camps in seven African countries, always looking for their parents and siblings. They crawl and hide and walk, finally arriving at a refugee camp in neighboring Burundi. Now alone, the girls wander through the countryside. As the death squads draw near, Clemantine and Claire crawl out the bedroom window and run into a maize field. Clemantine and her 15-year-old sister Claire escape to their grandparents’ home in the Rwandan countryside. Decades of tension between the majority Hutus and the minority Tutsis erupts and Hutu militia groups begin to sweep through villages butchering any Tutsi that they encounter. ![]() She describes an idyllic childhood, climbing trees with friends and inventing imaginary games. ![]() Six-year-old Clemantine Wamariya is living in Kigali with her mother and father and her three siblings. The story that inspired the song begins in Rwanda in 1994.
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