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About Odette Nyiramilimo
Odette Nyiramilimo (born 1956) is a Rwandan physician and senator. She served as Minister of State for Social Affairs in the government of Paul Kagame from March 2000 to October 2003. In 1981 she graduated as a medical doctor from the National University of Rwanda in Butare. She later married Jean-Baptiste Gasasira, also a physician, and the two later founded a private maternity and pediatrics practice in Kigali.
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βHe(Rusesabagina) really wanted to be the star.β
βNearly half of Rwandaβs legislators are female.β
βI could see the Interahamwe in the streets, though I was terrified to look at themβ
βRusesabagina had been brought down by hubris β his deluded conviction that it was heβ
βThere is no denying that Mr Rusesabagina risked his life to provide refuge for me and my family and many others.β
βShe was cautiously challenging the revisionist view of Rusesabagina that the government has taken such pains to propagate. βHe was very humane,ββ
βWe were hiding in our house in Nyamirambo after hearing my name being read among those who had been killed. We had to bribe the police every day to remain hidden. Mr Rusesabagina, who was a family friend, called to see if we were alive. After learning that we were alive, he sent a soldier to pick us up and take us to Hotel Mille Collines. It was a dangerous journey, so we had to be driven one by one and bribed our way through the roadblocks and lied that we were Hutu. It was a miracle that we arrived at the hotel.β
About Odette Nyiramilimo
Odette Nyiramilimo (born 1956) is a Rwandan physician and senator. She served as Minister of State for Social Affairs in the government of Paul Kagame from March 2000 to October 2003. In 1981 she graduated as a medical doctor from the National University of Rwanda in Butare. She later married Jean-Baptiste Gasasira, also a physician, and the two later founded a private maternity and pediatrics practice in Kigali.