Odette Nyiramilimo

Odette Nyiramilimo (born 1956) is a Rwandan physician and senator. She served as Minister of State for Social Affairs in the government of Paul Kagame from March 2000 to October 2003. In 1981 she graduated as a medical doctor from the National University of Rwanda in Butare. She later married Jean-Baptiste Gasasira, also a physician, and the two later founded a private maternity and pediatrics practice in Kigali.

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 * She was cautiously challenging the revisionist view of Rusesabagina that the government has taken such pains to propagate. “He was very humane,”
 * He took care of his friends, Odette Nyiramilimo spoke about rusesabagina (The New York Times, Sept. 20, 2021)
 * I could see the Interahamwe in the streets, though I was terrified to look at them
 * She would venture down the corridor and peer out a window, Odette Nyiramilimo said (The New York Times,  Sept. 20, 2021)
 * Rusesabagina had been brought down by hubris — his deluded conviction that it was he
 * He really came to the idea that he had saved those 1,300 people, Odette Nyiramilimo said (The New York Times,  Sept. 20, 2021)
 * He(Rusesabagina) really wanted to be the star.
 * as we left the Mille Collines, Odette Nyiramilimo said (The New York Times,  Sept. 20, 2021)
 * Because of the genocide, many people didn’t want to hear about birth control
 * Previous efforts had been opposed by officials, said Odette Nyiramilimo (The New York Times,  Sept. 20, 2021)
 * Nearly half of Rwanda’s legislators are female.
 * The bill was drafted by Odette Nyiramilimo   (The New York Times,  Feb. 11, 2007)
 * There is no denying that Mr Rusesabagina risked his life to provide refuge for me and my family and many others.
 * Rusesabagina was not a hero, The East African (09 September 2020)
 * We were hiding in our house in Nyamirambo after hearing my name being read among those who had been killed. We had to bribe the police every day to remain hidden. Mr Rusesabagina, who was a family friend, called to see if we were alive. After learning that we were alive, he sent a soldier to pick us up and take us to Hotel Mille Collines. It was a dangerous journey, so we had to be driven one by one and bribed our way through the roadblocks and lied that we were Hutu. It was a miracle that we arrived at the hotel.
 * Rusesabagina was not a hero, The East African (09 September 2020)