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161st YEAR • NO. 159 NOVEMBER 2, 2015 CLEVELAND, TN 16 PAGES • 50¢ OCC recipient comes full circle Rwandan orphan now helping Operation Christmas Child
By JOYANNA LOVE tribal unrest (when I was) a little boy. I April to July 1994. need a place to live,” Nsengimana said. Banner Senior Staff Writer was raised by my grandmother because “Within that time, about a million peo- “For me and my brother and my sister, my biological mother passed away due to ple lost their lives,” Nsengimana said. we were very young and we were just A shoebox and a candy cane brought a HIV/AIDS when I was very young and I Nsengimana’s grandmother was killed, wondering why are these people doing ray of hope to Alex Nsengimana. never knew my dad,” Nsengimana said. leaving his uncle to care for him and his this, because they are our neighbors. We Nsengimana was an orphan in The tribal unrest came to a climax in siblings. ran from place to place.” Rwanda. Now he is a college graduate 1994 when the Rwandan president was A few days later, members of the Hutu Nsengimana and his siblings fled from working with Samaritan’s Purse: assassinated. tribe came looking for his uncle. They the village they lived in, and moved to a Operation Christmas Child to bring this The Hutu tribe began aggressively killed him when they found him. city. same hope to other children. killing members of the Tutsi tribe, which “He told those guys, ‘Please do not “Rwanda was going through a lot of Nsengimana’s family belonged to, from destroy my house because my children See RECIPIENT, Page 8 Alex Nsengimana HHWCD event is " #%%#&