Mukasonga attended Lycée Notre-Dame-de-Citeaux , being one of the girls in the Tutsi quota . She recalls being mistreated there for being a Tutsi . She went to Burundi in 1973 , because that year she had endured an assault at the hands of Hutu students at her school . Mukasonga last saw much of her family in 1986 . This meant she was not in Rwanda during the Rwandan genocide , which killed 27 members of her family , including most of her brothers and sisters and her parents ; one sibling remained alive . Beginning in 1992 Mukasonga lived in France , and worked in Caen as a social worker , and she currently lives in Lower Normandy
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Scholastique Mukasonga