Originally published in ThreeWeeks.
A play about genocide is not the first place you would look for a story of faith and forgiveness. But the tagline to Leslie Lewis Sword’s one-woman show ‘Miracle In Rwanda’ is “finding God in genocide”, and she sees no contradiction. The show, Sword’s Fringe debut, tells the true story of Immaculée Ilibagiza. Ilibagiza lost her family in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but she escaped by hiding with seven other women for 91 days in a bathroom. While she hid, up to 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered.
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