Immaculee Ilibagiza

Immaculee is the main character of this autobiography. Immaculee was raised on the shores of Lake Kivu in a village called Mataba in the country of Rwanda. Immaculee was the only daughter in the family and she had three brothers named Aimable, Damascene and Vianney. Her parents were kind hearted people, teachers within the community. Left to Tell gives a review of her complete life with specific detail to the atrocities that occurred during the 1990 Rwandan Holocaust. During the Holocaust Immaculee spent over three months in hiding. While in hiding she suffered enormously yet grew in faith. The holocaust was the result of ethnic rivalry between the extremist Hutus and their victims, the Tutsis. The genocide took the lives of nearly a million Tutsi people including the majority of Immaculee's family. Because of the killing of Tutsis, and being a Tutsi herself, immaculee was forced into hiding...