My Country Wept

Author(s): Jessica Komanapalli

Location(s): Burundi

Genre(s): Nonfiction

Era(s): 1990s

One man’s amazing story of how God protected and provided for him in the midst of the Burundian civil war and brought him to a place of grace, forgiveness and restoration.

Theodore Mbazumutima was forced to flee from his nativeBurundi when tensions between Hutus and Tutsis increased after the death of Hutu President Ndadaye. His dangerous and incredible journey fleeing civil war istold in this page-turning, gripping account of God’s miraculous intervention, protection and guidance.

Escaping murderous mobs, then getting away from a refugee camp, being granted access to a country where God would provide aplace to study Theology, to Theo’s return to help his own people, this is a truly stunning account of the provision of God, and of grace and forgiveness.

Theo is now Director of Rema Ministries, which has established itself asa peace-building organisation committed to the rights of people in forced displacement situations, particularly refugees, the internally displaced and returnees.

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