![]() ![]() ![]() For the next 91 days, Immaculée and the other women huddled silently in this small room, while the genocide raged outside the home and throughout the country. The pastor quickly sheltered Immaculée and seven other women in a hidden 3 x 4 foot bathroom. To protect his only daughter from rape and murder, Immaculée’s father told her to run to a local pastor’s house for protection. ![]() Not even small, rural communities like Immaculée’s were spared from the house-by-house slaughtering of men, women and children. ![]() This assassination of the Hutu president sparked months of massacres of Tutsi tribe members throughout the country. On April 6 of that year, the Rwandan President’s plane was shot down over the capital city of Kigali. It was while she was home from school on Easter break in 1994 that Immaculée's life was transformed forever. Education was very important in her household, so it was no surprise that she did well in school and went on to the National University of Rwanda to study electrical and mechanical engineering. She enjoyed a peaceful childhood with her loving parents and three brothers. Immaculée Ilibagiza was born and raised in a small village in Rwanda, Africa. ![]()
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