Carrying Divine: My Rwanda Genocide Survivor Story

In April 1994, the Hutu government in Rwanda decided that the minority Tutsi tribe was a threat and should be wiped out completely. Henriette Ngenga was twenty-eight years old and pregnant with her fifth child, a baby girl named Divine. This young Tutsi mother was facing a government-mandated massacre with four children between the ages of one and eight in her care. Hunted by men with machetes, tortured in a prison, and beaten savagely, she felt her daughter writhing from starvation inside ...