English summary: Over fifty members of Elise Ridas family were killed during the Rwanda genocide twenty years ago. I did not survive to live, but to bear witness, to tell their lives, tell you of their dreams, and tell of their atrocious deaths. This staggering tale of a shattered childhood is also one of rebuilding, the rebuilding of a woman, a country, and a people.

French description: C'est un t�moignage que l'on prend de plein fouet. Il y a tout juste vingt ans, la famille d'Elise Rida, alors �g�e de dix ans, est d�cim�e lors du g�nocide qui ravage le Rwanda. � Je n'ai pas surv�cu pour vivre, mais plut�t pour t�moigner, pour dire leur vie � eux, vous dire ce qu'ils avaient comme r�ves, et pour dire leur mort atroce �, �crit-elle aujourd'hui. Ce r�cit bouleversant d'une enfance fracass�e par la haine dans le magnifique pays des mille collines r�sonne comme un cri de col�re. Mais Elise Rida va au-del� de cette mort qu'elle nomme sa � meilleure amie � car celle-ci a choisi de l'�pargner. Elle raconte ainsi les vingt ann�es qui se sont �coul�es depuis ce 6 avril 1994, date du d�but des massacres. Le Livre d'Elise est celui de la lente reconstruction d'une femme, d'un pays, d'un peuple dans le souvenir obs�dant de l'un des pires drames du XXe si�cle.>

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�lise Rida Musomandera, 30 ans, a perdu 50 membres de sa famille en 1994. Elle a repris ses �tudes et participe au travail de m�moire du g�nocide.>

Laure Coret est enseignante, docteur en litt�rature compar�e, auteur de Rwanda, 1994-2004: des faits, des mots, des oeuvres (L'Harmattan, 2005).>

Alexandre Dauge-Roth enseigne la litt�rature au Bates College (Maine, Etats-Unis). Il a pr�fac� la r��dition de SurVivantes, de Esther Mujawayo et Sou�d Belhaddad aux �ditions Metispress (Gen�ve, 2004). Il a cr�� Friends of Tubeho, une fondation qui permet de financer des bourses d'�tudes aux membres de l'association Tubeho.>

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�lise Rida Musomandera, 30 ans, a perdu 50 membres de sa famille en 1994. Elle a repris ses �tudes et participe au travail de m�moire du g�nocide.

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