The Rwandan genocide broke out in 1994, when the government-backed Hutu tribe began to slaughter the Tutsi people. As a result of the brutal slayings, most of which were committed by machete, it is estimated that up to one million people were killed in the space of just a couple of months.

Despite growing up together as good friends, Callixte and Andrew were separated by one crucial factor — their tribe. As the genocide began to gather pace, Callixte found himself part of a mob that brutally murdered many members of Andrew's wife's family. He was subsequently imprisoned for 13 years.

"While he was imprisoned, I hated him," Andrew explained to ET Good Works. "My wife hated his wife, our children hated their children."

Wallowing in jail after the genocide finally came to an end, Callixte said he experienced instant regret for his heinous crimes, adding that he sought the Lord for forgiveness.

"I spent a lot of time in grief," he said. "I repented to God for my sins."

But there was to be an extraordinary moment of hope in this otherwise dark and demonic story of murder and betrayal, and it came through the extension of an olive branch between the two wives.

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