From the book AFTER WAR(S), published in French by Autrement.
By Todd Pitman
I.
Venus Sinarinzi, the house's owner, didn't like people digging around in his yard. They'd already dug 16 meters into the ground and so far the barefoot boys, sent by city authorities down the narrow, half-meter-wide pit carved in his lawn, had only hoisted up a bunch of buckets of dirt and grime. It wasn't what they were looking for.
People -- neighbours, survivors and relatives of the deceased -- said hundreds of corpses had been buried on the property six years ago, during Rwanda's 1994 genocide. They were mostly Tutsis who had been hacked up or shot by extremist Hutus. Most had been stabbed with machetes or bludgeoned to death with clubs, and all of them had been heaved down into a pit that was hidden somewhere under the yard.
