From Rwanda
Beata & Emmanuel
Beata Mukangarambe & Emmanuel Bamporiki
Beata’s five children were killed during the genocide in Rwanda. For years, she remained in the neighborhood where her children had died, until a man who participated in killing her children returned to his neighboring home. Emmanuel relentlessly confronted her with his crime, begging her to forgive him. “Do you deserve to be forgiven,” she asks, “or do you deserve to die?” As Emmanuel seeks her forgiveness, hoping to learn how to live with himself again, Beata must decide if the path of forgiveness will aid in her own recovery and allow her to move on.
Jean-Baptiste
Jean-Baptiste Ntakirutimana
Jean-Baptiste survived the genocide in Rwanda, emerging to find that his immediate family, including 11 brothers, were gone. He struggled to recover from the trauma, suffering nightmares of his mother’s murder. Unable to learn the details of his family’s death, he imagined the worst. After living with the pain for several years, Jean-Baptiste decided to seek out and face the man who killed his mother. “He was in prison, but I was his prisoner,” he says. In Beyond Right & Wrong, Jean-Baptiste shares his journey to recovery and his effort to finally learn the truth about his mother’s murder.
