Immaculée was a 22-year-old college student home for the Easter holiday to visit her family who were from the Tutsi tribe. The Rwandan genocide, a bloody massacre of almost one million Tutsis in 100 days by the Hutu tribe, had just started in 1994, and her parents urged her to stay with a local pastor, a Hutu, who the family knew and trusted. The priest hid her and the other women in a small bathroom in his bedroom. He gave them food and water sporadically because he was afraid the Hutus might find out what he was doing.
