Pascal Kanyemera sits for a portrait at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Justin Tang)
Pascal Kanyemera sits for a portrait at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Justin Tang)
Pascal Kanyemera stands for a portrait at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Justin Tang)
Pascal Kanyemera stands for a portrait at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Justin Tang)
Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe stands for a portrait at his home in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, July 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Justin Tang)
Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe holds his book near his home in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, July 19, 2024. “In my book I write about what I call ‘God’s invisible hand,’” Ruhamyandekwe says. “Some people say it’s luck, but I say it was God guiding me through all the stuff I went through.” (AP Photo/Justin Tang)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - A man lies dead at the entrance to the Nyarubuye Roman Catholic Church in Njarubuje, Rwanda, east of Kigali, on May 31, 1994. Hutu extremists slaughtered close to 800,000 Tutsi in massacres that lasted over 100 days. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)
Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe sits for a portrait at his home in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, July 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Justin Tang)
Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe stands for a portrait at his home in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, July 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Justin Tang)
Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe stands for a portrait near his home in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, July 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Justin Tang)
Pascal Kanyemera is shown at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Kanyemera has no doubts: Back in 1994, when he survived the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, God had his back. (AP Photo/Justin Tang)
Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe sits for a portrait at his home in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, July 19, 2024. “Someone said that whoever forgets the past is condemned to relive it,” says Ruhamyandekwe, who lost a brother, uncles and aunts in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. (AP Photo/Justin Tang)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - Bodies of slaughtered Rwandans float at the bottom of a fall on the Kagera River marking the border between Rwanda and Tanzania near the bridge at Rusumo, Tanzania, on May 2, 1994. Hutu extremists slaughtered close to 800,000 Tutsi in massacres that lasted over 100 days. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)