The Running Man How the Voice in My Heart Helped Me Survive Genocide and Realise My Olympic Dream

Gilbert Tuhabonye is a survivor. More than ten years ago the centuries-oldattle between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes of Africa came to his school.uelled by hatred, the Hutus forced more than a hundred Tutsi children andeachers into a small room and used machetes to slash most of them to death.he unfortunate ones who survived were doused in petrol and set on fire.fter hiding under a heap of his smouldering classmates for more than eightours, Gilbert heard an inner voice saying, "You will be alright; you willurvive." Gilbert was the lone survivor of the school attack and thanks hisnduring faith in God for his survival. Today, Gilbert is a world classthlete, running coach, and celebrity in his home town of Austin, Texas. Theoad to this point has been a tough one, but he uses his survival instinctso spur him on to the goal of qualifying for the 2008 Olympic summer games.n his own words Gilbert recounts not only the horrific event back in 1993,ut the transformative power of forgiveness and faith: a truly compelling andmotive tale.