Jacqueline Mukansonera

thumb|Giardino dei Giusti del Mondo di Padova 050 Jacqueline Mukansonera (born 1963) is a Rwandan nurse. An ethnic Hutu, she saved the Tutsi woman Yolande Mukagasana from being killed during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Yolande had turned to her for help at the hospital where Jacqueline worked as a nurse, and she was one of the first targets of the Hutu violence because she was seen as a member of the Tutsi intelligentsia. Jacqueline concealed her in the kitchen of her home for 11 days, neither of the two women spoke to one another during the stay out of fear of discovery. Jacqueline later bribed a policeman and managed to provide Yolande with falsified documents which said she was Hutu. Quotes I would like to invite all of you, Rwandans Tutsi and Hutu, but also you non-Rwandans, to be modest because we are gathered here four years after the genocide, while during the genocide there was total silence everywhere. External links Category: Living people Category:Human rights activists Category:1963 births Category: Rwanda