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.