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A hundred days of carnage, twenty-five years of rebirth--Provided by publisher.
List of contents
Table of Contents:1--Plane Crash
2--Background
3--Childhood
4--Wakening
5--Charles
6--Trouble
7--Tightening Net
8--April 16
9--Haven
10--Loneliness
11--Interlude
12--Peace with Bugarama
13--Aftermath
14--My Calling
15--Beata
16--Healing
17--Antoine
18--Community
19--Forgiveness
About the author
Sakina Denise Uwimana-Reinhardt was born to Rwandan immigrant parents in Burundi. She later moved to Rwanda, where she met her husband, Charles. When she was twenty-nine, she survived the Rwandan genocide of 1994 with her three sons; her husband was killed. After finding personal healing and reconciliation, she went on to found Iriba Shalom International, an organization that provides material and spiritual help to genocide survivors. She remarried and now lives with her husband, Dr. Wolfgang Reinhardt, in Kassel, Germany. Together they continue to work for healing in Rwanda.
Summary
A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of Rebirth
In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely help of Hutu Good Samaritans, she and her children survived. Her husband and other family members were not as lucky.
If this were only a memoir of those chilling days and the long, hard road to personal healing and freedom from her past, it would be remarkable enough. But Uwimana didn’t stop there. Leaving a secure job in business, she devoted the rest of her life to restoring her country by empowering other genocide widows to band together, tell their stories, find healing, and rebuild their lives. The stories she has uncovered through her work and recounted here illustrate the complex and unfinished work of truth-telling, recovery, and reconciliation that may be Rwanda’s lasting legacy. Rising above their nation’s past, Rwanda’s genocide survivors are teaching the world the secret to healing the wound of war and ethnic conflict.
Includes 16 pages of color photographs.
Foreword
This is a hard book to read, but people of faith must read it, especially to learn about the culpability of Christians in the genocide. Some might call From Red Earth inspiring, and it is. But...I also found it humbling.--Elizabeth Felicetti, Christian Century
