VII. The State response.

VII. The State response.

Recommendations -- Background -- Cases of torture and arbitrary detention -- The conditions for torture: safe houses and arbitrary detention -- Compounding the abuse: prolonged detention, courts martial -- The state response.

When Bekunda and her toddler son, Kayibanda, cross an international border, they are in dire straits and desperately need sanctuary, human kindness and divine favor. The new country gives them sanctuary, the natives show them kindness and the local spirits do the miraculous on their behalf. But can Kayibanda be as gracious to his new country as it has been to him? Can he overcome his profoundly flawed nature, which appears to be hereditary?