Briefing Room   A journey: Two Moritz LL.M. students and native
Rwandans survived the unthinkable  April 5, 2010 | Students
When Edouard Kayihura was 8 years old, he spent three weeks
hiding under bushes and living in mountains with no supplies and
in fear for his life. His village in the mountains of Rwanda was
under attack and his family was being hunted down because of
their ethnic background. His house was burned to the ground
while he hid. Perhaps this experience was foreshadowed what
would happen later in Kayihura’s life. Flash forward 21 years,
and Kayihura found himself held up at the Hotel des Mille
Collines (made famous by the movie Hotel Rwanda) as more than
800,000 of his countrymen were slaughtered in the Rwanda
Genocide.  Charles Rutonesha has a different, but arguably no
less tragic, story to tell about his life and family in Rwanda.
Today both Edouard and Charles attend The Ohio State University
Moritz College of Law and are working toward LL.M. degrees.  The
journey from the hillsides and c