Estelle Platini<p>"Every night, I sleep through the same nightmare. I hear a roar coming towards me, an increasingly menacing rumour. I don't turn round. I don't need to. I know who's chasing me… I know they have machetes. Somehow, without turning around, I know they have machetes… Sometimes there are my classmates too. I hear their screams when they fall. When they… Now I'm running alone, I know I'm going to fall, I know I'm going to be trampled, I don't want to feel the cold of the blade on my neck, I…<br>I wake up. I'm in France. The house is silent. My children are asleep in their room.</p><p> – Scholastique Mukasonga, in her book "Inyenzi ou les Cafards" (incipit)</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Mukasonga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mukasonga</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Rwanda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rwanda</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/%D8%B4%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>شهيد</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/shaheed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shaheed</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/witness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>witness</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mourning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mourning</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coloniality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coloniality</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nightmare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nightmare</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/trauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trauma</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ethnicCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethnicCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PTSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PTSD</span></a></p>