We Are All Rwandans
In 1997, three years after the Rwandan genocide, a large refugee camp was disbanded over the border between Rwanda and Zaire (now the Congo), causing a mass repatriation of genocide refugees and rebels back into Rwanda.
A group of rebels bent on destabilizing the new government infiltrated the north, an area called Kibuye, and carried out massacres, mostly against Tutsis.
On the night of 18th March 1997 they raided Nyange Secondary school in the North West of the country. The rebels surrounded the school dining hall and classes when all students were doing their night studies. Students in class 6 were made to lie down and asked to separate themselves into two groups: Hutu and Tutsi.
They refused.
This is the story of those students - whose refusal to separate cost many of them their lives, and who have recently been honoured as national heroes ten years after their deaths.
The film is a short (25 mins) reconstruction of events - based on survivor testimonies and written by Rwandan film-maker Ayuub Kasasa Mago. It was filmed with the support of the Nyange school, and the student survivors association, and the actors speak in the Rwandan national language, Kinywarwandan (subtitled for non-Rwandan viewers in English and French).
Included is an Audio CD with the Original Soundtrack from the film, featuring Rwandan and UK Musicians.