Rwandan Genocide Finds Release in Photos
by NPR staff
December 12, 2010
click here to view article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/12/13/131971720/rwanda
Rwanda is an example of a country that has overcome many great obstacles. When death and hatred swept the nation in 1994, the people had to make a choice that would affect the outcome of their nation for generations to come. Genocide is something that is wrongly sheltered from the rest of the world because many feel it does not pertain to them, but in fact it does. The mass murder of over 1 million people in 1994, shows the resilience and strength of these people. The Article does not go into full detail of the horrors of this time, but it shows merely just a glimpse of what many of these families had to endure.
I never imagined that the Genocide in Rwanda would ever impact my life in the incredibly strong way that it has. The last four years my family has been blessed with the opportunity to have a young woman from Rwanda go to school here, and be involved in our lives. Spending holidays with her and many of her friends at my house has been fascinating and eye opening as well. The more time we spend together, I can see the pain that she feels from what she may have endured as a child that I will probably never have knowledge of. So in reading this article, as well as many others, I find this genocide to be horrific, and gruesome, and wrong. I feel this in a deeper sense though now knowing that someone I now call a part of my family went through this. Although the country is starting to recover and heal, this is a time in Rwandan history that will always be remembered.
by NPR staff
December 12, 2010
click here to view article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/12/13/131971720/rwanda
Rwanda is an example of a country that has overcome many great obstacles. When death and hatred swept the nation in 1994, the people had to make a choice that would affect the outcome of their nation for generations to come. Genocide is something that is wrongly sheltered from the rest of the world because many feel it does not pertain to them, but in fact it does. The mass murder of over 1 million people in 1994, shows the resilience and strength of these people. The Article does not go into full detail of the horrors of this time, but it shows merely just a glimpse of what many of these families had to endure.
I never imagined that the Genocide in Rwanda would ever impact my life in the incredibly strong way that it has. The last four years my family has been blessed with the opportunity to have a young woman from Rwanda go to school here, and be involved in our lives. Spending holidays with her and many of her friends at my house has been fascinating and eye opening as well. The more time we spend together, I can see the pain that she feels from what she may have endured as a child that I will probably never have knowledge of. So in reading this article, as well as many others, I find this genocide to be horrific, and gruesome, and wrong. I feel this in a deeper sense though now knowing that someone I now call a part of my family went through this. Although the country is starting to recover and heal, this is a time in Rwandan history that will always be remembered.