The Power of Forgiveness - Immaculée Ilibagiza @LEAD Presented By HR.com

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Immaculée Ilibagiza
Rwandan Author and Motivational Speaker
Immaculée Ilibagiza was born and raised in a small village in Rwanda, Africa. She enjoyed a peaceful childhood with her loving parents and three brothers. 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. It was while she was home from school on Easter break in 1994 that Immaculée's life was transformed forever.
On April 6 of that year, the Rwandan President's plane was shot down over the capital city of Kigali. This assassination of the Hutu president sparked months of massacres of Tutsi tribe members throughout the country. Not even small, rural communities like Immaculée's were spared from the house-by-house slaughtering of men, women and children.
To protect his only daughter from rape and murder, Immaculée's father told her to run to a local pastor's house for protection. The pastor quickly sheltered Immaculée and seven other women in a hidden 3 x 4 foot bathroom. 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.

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  • @elisabethkaburahe7612
    @elisabethkaburahe76124 жыл бұрын

    This woman is my inspiration I can't tell how much I love her, I hope one day I'll get to meet her 🙏🏿

  • @maryjaya3716
    @maryjaya37163 жыл бұрын

    She is the victory of Our Lord. He has won her!!!

  • @stellakemigisha2219
    @stellakemigisha22194 жыл бұрын

    Touching. Brought tears in my eyes.

  • @mintesinottesfaye4815
    @mintesinottesfaye48152 жыл бұрын

    you taught us the severity of mariginalization.i read your book 'left to tell'..your strength and positivity is amazing....I LOVE YOU

  • @aurorakirkham3671
    @aurorakirkham36713 жыл бұрын

    I'm in the middle of reading "Left to Tell." It was recommended to me a couple years ago, and I'm finally getting around to reading it. This woman is truly an inspiration. I can't wait to read and hear about more of her horrifying, yet faithful, journey.

  • @g.ahabteselassie7187
    @g.ahabteselassie71873 жыл бұрын

    Emmaculee y are a pure heart and maybe the only person who can forgive those types of enemies in the world. Y are like an Angel. God loves y. Ily ❤

  • @gerardvetunawa1484
    @gerardvetunawa14843 жыл бұрын

    Immaculee keep on honoring our mother Our Lady of Quadalupe The Queen of Peace. she will tell her son Jesus and he will give his blessings to you." Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum benedicta tu"

  • @assumptarobin6742
    @assumptarobin67426 жыл бұрын

    trully there is power in forgiving

  • @FriminaFrimini-xc6ve
    @FriminaFrimini-xc6ve9 ай бұрын

    You are a deep spiritual sister Immaculee, your story itself is a mentor for those who are struggling to forgive, and battling with faith. May God keep showering His blessings on you and those you touch. May Jesus heal many through your life's values Immaculee

  • @zoediko6510
    @zoediko65104 жыл бұрын

    Imacullee's books led me to Rwanda...i stayed there for 2.5 weeks, beautiful country, humble and conservative people... I pray to go back to visit Kibeho to complete my tour..

  • @giddynun
    @giddynun3 жыл бұрын

    May God bless her 🙏🏽

  • @shalomvisitas2693
    @shalomvisitas26934 жыл бұрын

    Watching 2020! I read her book and so moving. Imaculee you are an inspiration.

  • @angelaserrano5284

    @angelaserrano5284

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hello. Do you have an ebook of the book?

  • @helenaguay1011
    @helenaguay10113 жыл бұрын

    Thru her I have learned thar you have to forgive 70 times 7 of your fellowmwn.... she was spared by the Lord to do this...

  • @oleratoolerato5748
    @oleratoolerato57484 жыл бұрын

    When I read "Left to tell "it was like God is preparing me for hard times that came just after i read it .I cannot begin to say how much it help me ,I could always think of how constant you prayed all through the time you were in hiding ,hiding in a house of the enemy and God softened his heart and protected you.How I wish I could meet you and tell you in person Thank you for sharing your story .

  • @SuperRiya16
    @SuperRiya163 жыл бұрын

    Praise the lord 🙏🏻

  • @anaelizabethdasilva2331
    @anaelizabethdasilva23313 жыл бұрын

    Thanks God! Thanks Virgin Mary for your beautiful and faithful daughter.🙏🙌🙏🌹❤🌷

  • @lewisedwards4058
    @lewisedwards40585 жыл бұрын

    Our entire high school read her book and she came to visit to speak to us. She can forgive because of the Holy Spirit that lives in her. It’s by God’s power within us that we can forgive, not of our own strength.

  • @kinukari9255

    @kinukari9255

    4 жыл бұрын

    AS YOU COME TO RWANDA YOU ARE WELCOME YOU WILL MEET MILLIONS OF ORPHANS WHOSE PARENTS WERE MASSACRED BY THE IMMACULEES UNCLES WHO WERE MEMBERS OF RWANDA PATRIOTIC FRONT. A TUTSI MILITIA THAT INVADED RWANDA FROM UGANDA AND SPONSORED BY THE US UNDER BILL CLINTON. YOU WILL MEET MILLIONS OF INNOCENT INTELLECTUAL HUTUS WHO ARE LANGUISHING IN PRISONS BOTH KNOWN AND UNKNOWN ONES. THE ONLY CRIME IS THAT THEY WERE HUTU ELITES WELL EDUCATED AND TUTSIS ELITES NEEDED TO GRAB THEIR PROPERTIES WHOSE THEIR PARENTS HAD WORKED HARD FOR YEARS. THE ONLY EASIEST WAYS TO GET RID OF THEM WAS TO ACCUSE THEM FOR PARTICIPTING IN THE GENOCIDE. HOWEVER WE FORGET THAT THE TUTSIS LEAD BY GENERAL PAUL KAGAME WITH THE HELP OF BOTH UGANDA AND USA DOWNED HABYARIMANAS PLANE ASSASSINATING TWO HUTU PRESIDENTS HABYARIMANA JUVENAL OF RWANDA AND CYPRIAN NTARYAMIRA OF BURUNDI WHO WERE COMING FROM A PEACE ACCORD NEGOTIATIONS IN ARUSHA TANZANIA. WHEN YOU COME TO RWANDA YOU WILL MEET TWO CLEAR RWANDA. THERE IS AN APARTHEID RWANDA WHERE TUTSIS OWN ALMOST EVERYTHING FROM MILTARY INSTUTITIONS, BANKING AND FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, AND INDUSTRIES WHEREAS MAJORITY OF HUTUS ARE SUBJECTED TO FORCED VASECTOMY, HARD LABOUR, AND LIVING IN CONTRATION CAMPS AROUND RWANDA. THOSE WHO WERE NOT KILLED AND BE TOSSED INTO RIVER NYABARONGO IN 2015 ARE NOW LANGUISHING IN PRISONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. RECENTLY THE FAMOUS TUTSI GOSPEL SINGER AND RECONCILIATION CHAMPIONS MIHIGO KIZITO WAS FOUND ASSASSINATED IN ONE OF THE PRISONS IN KIGALI....HIS ONLY CRIME THAT IMMACULEE IS NOT WILLING TO TALK ABOUT...HE SUNG A SONG A SONG REMINDING RWANDANS THAT HUTU VICTIMS OF KAGAMES ONSLAUGHT MUST TOO BE REMEMBERED...AS YOU MIGHT HAVE READ MY POST RPF OF KAGAME KILLED MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION HUTUS BUT THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN GIVEN A CHANCE TO BE BURIED HONORABLY. WHEN KIZITO SAID THAT HE WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED ALTHOUGH HE WAS A TUTSI AND KILLED BY A TUTSI REGIME THAT IMMACULEE DOESNT WANT TO TALK ABOUT ...MORE THAN 1.2 RWANDANS WERE KILLED AND TUTSIS WERE ONLY 14% OF RWANDANS AND MORE THAN 500000 TUTSIS SURVIVED THE MASSACRE. WHO ARE OTHER 800000 RWANDANS KILLED AND WHO KILLED THEM? OBVIOUSLY THEY WERE HUTUS

  • @kinukari9255

    @kinukari9255

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Lewis Edwards IF SHE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT FORGIVENESS SHE SHOULD BE TRUTHFUL TO WHAT HAPPENED IN RWANDA. I WANT YOU FIRST TO TAKE TIME AND READ AND WATCH THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT RWANDA. FIRST READ THIS LETTER CALLED THE RWANDA BRIEFING WHICH WAS WRITTEN BY TUTSIS WHO WERE PART OF THE KAGAMES REGIME. THE LETTER WAS WRITTEN BY GENERAL KAYUMBA NYAMWASA WHO WAS THE KAGAMES CHIEF OF STAFV AND WAS INSTRUMENTAL ON THE KAGAMES RPF PLANS TO SLAUGHTER HUTUS BOTH INSIDE RWANDA AND IN THE HUTU REFUGEE CAMPS IN DRC. AFTER GENERAL KAYUMBA NYAMWASA AND HIS COLLEAGUES THE FORMER KAGAMES CHIEF OF SPY COLONEL KAREGEYA AND THE FORMER KAGAMES STATE HOUSE COMPTORLLER DR RUDASINGWA THEOGENE PAUL KAGAME WHO IS A TUTSI SENT HIS HIT SQUAD TO SOUTH AFRICA TO ASSASSINATE BOTH KAREGEYA AND KAYUMBA. THEY SUCCEDED TO KILL KAREGEYA AND FAILED TO KILL KAYUMBA. BOTH OF THEM ARE TUTSIS AND HELPED KAGAME TO SHOOT DOWN HABYARIMANAS PLANE WHICH KILLED TWO HUTU PRESIDENTS HABYARIMANA JUVENAL OF RWANDA AND CYPRIAN NTARYAMIRA OF BURUNDI. THEY WERE KILLED BY KAGAME WITH THE HELP OF BILL CLINTON OF USA. THEY WERE KILLED BECAUSE THEY WERE HUTUS AND WERE HINDRANCES TO THE US INVASION OF CONGO IN 1996 WHERE AMERICA SUPPORTED KAGAME TO GO AND KILL RWANDAN REFUGEES IN DRC IN ORDER TO CREATE A FREE PASS TO GO AND LOOT CONGO. THIS IS WHAT BILL CLINTON DID. READ RWANDA BRIEFING HERE WHICH WAS WRITTEN BY FOUR ELITE TUTSIS. IF IMMACULEE IRIBAGIZA WANTS FORGIVENESS AND GENUINE RECONCILIATION HOW COME SHE DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY HER BROTHERS AND COUSINS FROM DOWNING THE PLANE OF A SITTING PRESIDENT TO SLAUGHTERING CHILDREN, WOMAN, AND PREGANT WOMAN LIKE HER IN THE REFUGEE CAMPS IN DRC: RWANDA BRIEFING REPORT:afroamerica.net/pages/KayumbaKaregeyaRudasingwaGahimaRwanda_Briefing_August2010_ConsolidatedVersion2.pdf MOST TUTSIS WERE STRATEGIC AND THEY BELIEVED THAT BY ASSASSINATING TWO HUTU PRESIDENTS HABYARIMANA JUVENAL OF RWANDA AND CYPRIAN NTARYAMIRA OF BURUNDI WAS GOING TO SPARK THE VILLENCE AGAINST TUTSIS THEN THAT WOULD HELP THEM WIN INTERNATIONAL EMPTHY AND GET WEAPONS TO SLAUGHTER HUTUS TO POWER. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED AND MOST TUTSIS HAVE BENEFITED FROM IT BECAUSE EVEN THOSE WHO WERE NOT IN RWANDA IN 1994 HAVE GONE TO APPLY FOR ASYLUM IN USA, CANADA, EU, AUSTRALIA AS GENOCIDE SURVVIVORS AND YET THEY ARE THE ONES WHO SHOT DOWN THE PLANE

  • @immaculatakadyanji5927
    @immaculatakadyanji59274 жыл бұрын

    I read her book left to tell. I cried...😢😢😢

  • @k.1035
    @k.10355 жыл бұрын

    I want to meet immaculèe so badly, I'm going to Rwanda and she's the reason, I read her book and was touched and moved by Immaculèe. My church Compassion Christian is going and I'm so excited to learn from this wonderful loving country

  • @kinukari9255

    @kinukari9255

    4 жыл бұрын

    AS YOU COME TO RWANDA YOU ARE WELCOME YOU WILL MEET MILLIONS OF ORPHANS WHOSE PARENTS WERE MASSACRED BY THE IMMACULEES UNCLES WHO WERE MEMBERS OF RWANDA PATRIOTIC FRONT. A TUTSI MILITIA THAT INVADED RWANDA FROM UGANDA AND SPONSORED BY THE US UNDER BILL CLINTON. YOU WILL MEET MILLIONS OF INNOCENT INTELLECTUAL HUTUS WHO ARE LANGUISHING IN PRISONS BOTH KNOWN AND UNKNOWN ONES. THE ONLY CRIME IS THAT THEY WERE HUTU ELITES WELL EDUCATED AND TUTSIS ELITES NEEDED TO GRAB THEIR PROPERTIES WHOSE THEIR PARENTS HAD WORKED HARD FOR YEARS. THE ONLY EASIEST WAYS TO GET RID OF THEM WAS TO ACCUSE THEM FOR PARTICIPTING IN THE GENOCIDE. HOWEVER WE FORGET THAT THE TUTSIS LEAD BY GENERAL PAUL KAGAME WITH THE HELP OF BOTH UGANDA AND USA DOWNED HABYARIMANAS PLANE ASSASSINATING TWO HUTU PRESIDENTS HABYARIMANA JUVENAL OF RWANDA AND CYPRIAN NTARYAMIRA OF BURUNDI WHO WERE COMING FROM A PEACE ACCORD NEGOTIATIONS IN ARUSHA TANZANIA. WHEN YOU COME TO RWANDA YOU WILL MEET TWO CLEAR RWANDA. THERE IS AN APARTHEID RWANDA WHERE TUTSIS OWN ALMOST EVERYTHING FROM MILTARY INSTUTITIONS, BANKING AND FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, AND INDUSTRIES WHEREAS MAJORITY OF HUTUS ARE SUBJECTED TO FORCED VASECTOMY, HARD LABOUR, AND LIVING IN CONTRATION CAMPS AROUND RWANDA. THOSE WHO WERE NOT KILLED AND BE TOSSED INTO RIVER NYABARONGO IN 2015 ARE NOW LANGUISHING IN PRISONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. RECENTLY THE FAMOUS TUTSI GOSPEL SINGER AND RECONCILIATION CHAMPIONS MIHIGO KIZITO WAS FOUND ASSASSINATED IN ONE OF THE PRISONS IN KIGALI....HIS ONLY CRIME THAT IMMACULEE IS NOT WILLING TO TALK ABOUT...HE SUNG A SONG A SONG REMINDING RWANDANS THAT HUTU VICTIMS OF KAGAMES ONSLAUGHT MUST TOO BE REMEMBERED...AS YOU MIGHT HAVE READ MY POST RPF OF KAGAME KILLED MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION HUTUS BUT THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN GIVEN A CHANCE TO BE BURIED HONORABLY. WHEN KIZITO SAID THAT HE WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED ALTHOUGH HE WAS A TUTSI AND KILLED BY A TUTSI REGIME THAT IMMACULEE DOESNT WANT TO TALK ABOUT

  • @CarterKey6

    @CarterKey6

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kinu Kari this is interesting we never hear this in the west I want to research what you are saying

  • @kinukari9255

    @kinukari9255

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@CarterKey6 YOU ARE WELCOME IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HOW THIS PEOPLE SPREAD LIES TO BENEFIT THEIR TRIBE YOU CAN WRITE TO ME at karisimbika@gmail.com SEE THE DOCUMENTARY RWANDA UNTOLD STORY BY BBC:vimeo.com/107867605 IF THIS WOMAN WANTS THE WORLD OT KNOW THE TRUTH SHE SHOULD START FROM THIS TRUTH IN THIS DOCUMENTARY AND STOP LYING TO BENEFIT HERSELF

  • @pastorgideontruzindaminist8746

    @pastorgideontruzindaminist8746

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@kinukari9255 my brother your still broken and bleeding please heal we are far we are the decendents of Rwandans but we have never stepped in Rwanda and we had the stories out great-grandfathers told us about the brutal mascara of 1958 but above all forgive and move on. Rwanda your a monolithic state why hate each others 😢😢

  • @Fidel_Geez
    @Fidel_Geez4 жыл бұрын

    😍

  • @celebrity_rooster7488
    @celebrity_rooster74883 жыл бұрын

    The Power of Forgiveness aka The Power of Neglect

  • @francescasingh3109
    @francescasingh3109 Жыл бұрын

    🙏🙏🌻

  • @liduamane-wf7ym
    @liduamane-wf7ymАй бұрын

    I need your history book

  • @geofbeka1669
    @geofbeka16695 жыл бұрын

    May God help me, but frankly i don't know how can I forgive someone who has hacked and killed all my family members deliberately just because he hate my ethnicity, I real don't know

  • @patmccrutch3927

    @patmccrutch3927

    5 жыл бұрын

    geof beka if you ever meet her in person you will understand how... she is an unbelievably peace filled woman, very kind and gentle. She is married to a man from Trinidad and Tobago, a where I from, and she came a few times to speak... before she even opened her mouth, the second she walked on the stage, every person in the audience was crying. She is so special! She held my hands when I made it to the end of the line for her autograph and spoke to me and it’s one of my absolute favorite, most precious memories. If you ever get the chance, I encourage you to go to listen to her speak. Her journey to forgiveness is an absolutely incredible one!

  • @bryanthomsen5551

    @bryanthomsen5551

    5 жыл бұрын

    She has to have unbelievable courage for her to forgive those who slaughtered her family and countless others.

  • @hrabmv

    @hrabmv

    6 ай бұрын

    you can not become Jesus like unless you say YES and listen to him and show your serious about it...then you grow.....how can a tennis player become a champion? through learning. She just told you this is a learning process and it can be done. Faith is a muscle....it grows when your heart seeks Jesus

  • @panvincent5052
    @panvincent50525 жыл бұрын

    damn it how can people forgive it

  • @anubhachandra5567
    @anubhachandra55672 жыл бұрын

    not in mypower to forgive no matter what . i wouldnt want to live without my family

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