out the tutsi minority almost a 1000000 people were killed and 100 danes including most of the m.i. congo artists. the few who survived lost their entire families. and. we had nothing. no houses no food for our children. but because we women work together we could support each other. that was the biggest difference between us and the other villagers. as everyone had problems and was traumatized but we had each other and it helped a lot. the artist taught other genocide survivors what they knew since then 15 women have been working together in the cook europe cooperative. their motifs are traditional rwandan symbols often from the natural world the spiral represents an elephant's trunk. the zigzag crocodile. the women consciously avoid portraying the horrors of 1994. i would put her. some artist write songs or books about the genocide. but that's out of the question for us. we cannot create a picture showing someone killing a person. our picture should help people and have a positive effect on society. well in the northern illinois who work. there hard work is already shown in many differe