 After facing starvation in the jungle, Sifa decided to risk being murdered and reentered the village where he and his brother were reunited with their mother and sister at a Red Cross station.When they returned to their house, they discovered a corrupt official had seized their property, so they lived in a small hut for several years until Sifa's mother obtained the necessary papers from the Rwandan government to reclaim her property.When she approached the government official about her property, he hired a gang to beat her and she died two weeks later from the beatings.