Rwanda: Nine Years to Forgiveness

20 February 2009

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a permanent attitude." Jean Paul Samputu, the acclaimed singer and UN peace activist, is well placed to make the claim, having struggled himself for years before being able to forgive the murderer of his family. Both of them were recently on a tour in Rwanda to preach forgiveness and reconciliation.

Jean Paul Samputu lost his parents and several other family members during the genocide. When he returned to his village when the carnage was over, he learned the horrible truth: they had been murdered by his best friend.

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