Sunday, April 22, 2012
A Day of Reflection, In Memory of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide
Laura and I took part in the International Day Of Reflection On The 1994 Genocide In Rwanda. The event took place at the Palais Des Nations (U.N.) One of the outstanding speakers was a young genocide survivor Annick Kayitesi.
She told of being 11 years old and seeing her family murdered with machetes right in front of her. One other family member survived, a younger sister, who had taken many machete blows to her body. Annick worked to rescue her sister and hide until they could escape. Now Annick is a wife and mother of two. She has a college education and she works hard to insure education for the children of Rwanda.
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Some things are so hard to imagine, our minds want to recoil from the thought.
But these awful times must be remembered, their survivors honored, and hopefully prevented in the future by doing so.
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