Abstract Génocidé (2006) by Révérien Rurangwa is an autobiographical testimony of the trauma he endured during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This article examines the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions of his death and reconstruction, as well as the narrative strategies used to make his death hearable to the reader. Rurangwa suffered brutal physical attacks that led to the annihilation of his being. Tonic immobility (feigning death to avoid detection) contributed to his psychological death, and the massacre of his entire family provoked a loss of collective and individual identity. While Rurangwa’s exclusion from society and dehumanization constituted a form of social death, his spiritual death included a loss of faith and the death of God within him. Overall, Rurangwa expresses trauma in ways that are consistent with Rwandan beliefs about the body, and his testimony is best understood in relation to ihahamuka, a specifically Rwandan model of trauma. Rurangwa’s narrative challenges academic discourse on the unspeakability of trauma because he uses pre-existing cultural concepts, proverbs, literary passages, and religious texts to narrate his own death. Rurangwa also draws upon individual, collective, and transcendent forms of self to articulate trauma and reconstruct a sense of self.