Photo story: Rwandan survivor pays courtesy call on PM Kamla

Photos by Nicholas Ramjass - courtesy Office of the Prime Minister

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Tuesday received a courtesy call from survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide Immaculée Ilibagiza, who is visiting Trinidad and Tobago.

During her visit Ilibagiza signed the official visitor’s log book and presented the Prime Minister with a copy of her book, “Left to Tell; Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust.” 

In return, the Prime Minister presented her with a copy of her recently launched book, “Kamla, Trinidad and Tobago’s First Woman Prime Minister”.

Ilibagiza was one of eight women who spent 91 days confined in a bathroom of a Rwandan pastor’s house. 

She entered the bathroom as a 115-pound university student with a family and came out weighing just 65 pounds, to find out all but one member of her family had been killed in the genocide. The sole survivor was her brother who had been studying outside of the country.

Ilibagiza is also one of the world’s leading speakers on peace, faith, and forgiveness.