In April 1994, the Hutu government
in Rwanda decided that the minority Tutsi tribe was a threat and should be
wiped out completely. Henriette Ngenga was twenty-eight years old and pregnant
with her fifth child, a baby girl named Divine. This young Tutsi mother was
facing a government-mandated massacre with four children between the ages of
one and eight in her care. Hunted by men with machetes, tortured in a prison,
and beaten savagely, she felt her daughter writhing from starvation inside her
womb, while privately rejoicing that there was still any movement at all. This
is one mother