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Biographies & Memoirs

From Red Earth: A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness

From Red Earth: A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness

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 didnâ€™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 Rwandaâ€™s lasting legacy. Rising above their nationâ€™s past, Rwandaâ€™s genocide survivors are teaching the world the secret to healing the wound of war and ethnic conflict.

Includes 16 pages of color photographs.
Country USA
Brand Plough Publishing House
Manufacturer Plough Publishing House
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780874869842
ReleaseDate 2019-04-06

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