Living Beyond the Past: Overcoming Belgium's 'Divide to Rule' Policy

In 1994, the world witnessed the genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda.

Many rushed to justify the genocide by blaming it on a plane crash that

killed President Habyarimana of Rwanda and President Ntaryamira of Burundi.

However, I was born in the Congo in the 1960s and I grew up with the fear of

being killed one day because of my ethnicity.

I escaped the killings of Tutsi in the Congo, moved to Rwanda after the

genocide, and contributed to the rebuilding of a destroyed nation suspended

between hope and uncertainty. Despite being subjected to humiliation and

fear all my life, I refused to be a prisoner of ethnic hatred.

With more than ninety percent of the population being Christians in the

land of a thousand hills, Hutu and Tutsi should live peacefully. Where

Christ is, the dividing wall of hostility has been destroyed. Otherwise, we

preachers of the good news, and Christian politicians, should ask ourselves

if we are faithfully fulfilling our mission.

This book is about overcoming evil through spiritual values.

Bio

Innocent Sezibera is an ordained minister with the Pentecostal Assemblies

of Canada (PAOC) and the senior pastor of Goshen Christian Assembly of

Edmonton. He and his wife, Immaculée, live in Edmonton, Alberta with their

children Angelique, Solange, Yvette, Jonathan and Promesse.