Kigali, Rwanda (CNN) -- Every year, beginning in April, Rwanda's government urges its citizens to "Kwibuka" -- the Rwandan word for "remember." To remember the hundreds of thousands of lives lost during the country's 1994 genocide. But all Marie Jeanne wants to do is to forget. The 36-year-old's entire family was slaughtered during that dark period in her small East African country's history. The massacre saw Hutu militias and civilians alike murder vast numbers of members of the Tutsi ethnic minority: Men, women and children, many of whom had been their neighbors before the conflict began. The killings finally came to an end 100 days later, when Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) troops, led by Paul Kagame, defeated the Hutu rebels and took control of the country.
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Rwandan genocide took place 20 years ago: Hutu militia massacred members of the Tutsi ethnic minority
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Many of those who survived the carnage were left scarred; rape was used as a weapon, spreading HIV
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Marie Jeanne's daughter Kirezi was born as a result of rape; two decades on this still pains both of them
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But Kirezi is determined to dream of a brighter future for herself and her country
Marie Jeanne says it was some time before she could finally look at her newborn baby girl, who she named @placeholder.