Immaculée Ilibagiza

Immaculée Ilibagiza was born in Rwanda and studied electrical engineering and mechanical engineering at a national university. During the massacre of 1994, she lost most of her family. Four years later she moved to the United States and started working in the United Nations in New York. She is currently a full-time speaker and writer. In 2007, she founded Left to teach Charity Fund to support orphans in Rwanda.

Immaculée was awarded honorary Doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and St. John's University and received the Mahatma Gandhi International Reconciliation and Peace Prize in 2007. She is a writer, Steve Owen.

In 1994, Tutsi Immaculée Ilibagiza from Rwanda and the other seven adults were hiding in the secret bath of the minister 's house. In the meantime, bloody mass genocide occurred in the country, hidden in the toilet, Immaculée escaped death. An estimated 800,000 Rwandans were murdered within 100 days between April and June 1994. Most of them are Tutsi. The family of Immaculée was one of those who lost their lives in a brutal war. Today, Immaculée is an impressive speaker and missionary. Her book "Left to Tell" talks about how her survival and her Roman Catholic faith taught her how to allow family killers. In an interview with CBS, Immaculée will never forget what he has experienced, but forgiveness is a significant step forward, revenge will prolong the pain otherwise. "And I do not want it," she said. "After killing my family, they do not want to put this baggage into my stomach in my heart to keep this anger."

Leaving to speak is a memoir of Immaculée Ilibagiza on her suffering in genocide in Rwanda. This book was published in 2006, 12 years after the massacre of 1994, and one million people were deprived of lives in 100 days. In the first third of the memoirs, Immaculée explained her life until the massacre. She grew up in a middle-class family who emphasizes education and has three brothers. Her family is a clown. The tension of most Hutu people always existed, but they seldom make her uneasy. She and her family have friends and relatives of Hutu. Immaculée detailed her life at elementary school, high school and college; when the family returned from college, a massacre began.