By Jack Brunet
Jack Brunet, pastor in Martinique, provided this update about the members in Rwanda.
MARTINIQUE--I received a letter from Clement Banzubaze, whom we haven't heard from since before the rebel activity in northeast Zaòre.
The Banzubaze family lived in the Mugunga refugee camp near Goma, Zaire. The Banzubaze family (the parents and four children) had fled there to escape the Rwandan genocide between Hutus and Tutsis.
In the wake of renewed violence the refugees split in two groups. Some were taken hostage by Hutus.
The Banzubaze family were among the second group, who fled the refugee camp and returned to Rwanda. Under a continuous rain, they walked for nine days without food to their native town.
Everyone is fine now, only Mrs. Banzubaze is sick. Her husband thinks she was infected by poison from Tutsis now in power in Rwanda after the ethnic extermination.
Their house in Kigali is occupied by a Tutsi family. They will wait patiently and "with Christianity" to reoccupy the family house.
As an environment director, Mr. Banzubaze needs to wait until this summer to work again in his former position because the government wants to "recycle" and "educate" people coming back from refugee camps.
Please pray for the safety of the Banzubaze family and for their reinsertion into that divided society. The children are traumatized too.
The Banzubazes are thankful for the prayers of WCG members, and the financial and spiritual support from the WCG during their trial.
Other members (one Rwandan family and two Burundi singles) from Bukavu are still missing because of rebel activities. The Zaòrian army bombed Bukavu, and a bomb exploded in the central market killing many people.
Please pray for Mrs. Mudahama Furama CÄline and her Rwandan family and Cassien Sindaye and Wenceslas Andyatuyaga, the two Burundi students living in Bukavu.
March 18, 1997, WN, page 16
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