Zura Karuhimbi

Zura Karuhimbi (c. 1925 – 17 December 2018) was a Rwandan woman who saved more than 100 people from being killed by Hutu militias during the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda .

[2][3] Her family were traditional healers in the village of Musamo in Ruhango District, around an hour's drive from the nation's capital of Kigali.

She later claimed that in 1959 she had saved the life of a two-year-old Tutsi boy by tying beads from her necklace into his hair so that he could pass as a girl and escape execution by the Hutus.

[2][5] Karuhimbi claimed her house was inhabited by ghosts, and threatened that those who tried to enter would unleash evil spirits and the wrath of God upon themselves.

[2][5] She emphasised her warnings by jangling her bracelet-laden arms and threatening that if any refugees were killed inside her house then the murderers would be "digging their own graves".