A survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, identified in the transcript only as "Survivor," told the United Nations that she fled her neighborhood on April 7, 1994, and later learned that people who had sought refuge at the National Stadium were killed at a nearby garbage site.

"I'm a survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi that happened in 1994 in Rwanda when I was 9 years old," the survivor said. She described leaving her home after neighbors warned her family to flee and attempting to reach a United Nations peacekeeping site before learning the mission had withdrawn.

The witness said her group then tried to go to the National Stadium but "on the way, they ran into a roadblock of militia and soldiers, and they told them they are going to be killed. And they took them to a garbage site, and when they got there, they killed everyone." She added, "They shoot. They used machetes to kill everyone, and we learned about that on the morning of April 12."

She recounted immediate family losses and separation: a militia member who found her later told the group he would "only take the baby and the nanny," leaving her behind. Speaking of the aftermath, the survivor said she stayed alone for about two months, surviving on powdered milk and sugar dissolved in rainwater.

The survivor said she came to the United Nations to give testimony "which is an important part of our duties as survivors or as Rwandans, because we want to conserve this history... and also to educate the world, to educate the younger generations of Rwanda, but also to educate the rest of the world about what happened so that it wouldn't happen anywhere else in the world."