Issues & Politics/History 07 Apr 2008 08:43 am
14 Years to Purge our Sins 
Rwanda - but a name. Foreign, far off and yet it should be so close to our heart.
There are no words to express, no words to describe.
It’s not the horrors of a foreign country that should humble us. Nor the thousands of dead.
But our own ignorance, disillusionment and disregard.
14 years for uncountable souls tortured, lives lost and lies of a universal brotherhood of Nations exposed.
Our Western silence and forgetfulness kills again today. The memory of the dead innocent.
NB: I find it absolutely unbelievable that French or German media can’t seem to be bothered to issue more than one article on the 14 year commemoration of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide. It leaves me angry and speechless. English speaking media seem to pick it up a bit more.
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on 07 Apr 2008 at 8:56 1.Joël said …
And the memory of the almost evanescent life of those who are still waiting for their judgement, in jail for more than 10 years… If this was to happen in one of our Western countries, how will we react to people awaiting to be judged all those years in jail… maybe innocent ones… who knows?
on 07 Apr 2008 at 9:03 2.yseult said …
Note that these links are dynamically generated and subject to change whenever Google updates their index. At the time this article was published there was one article for each link to a newspaper covering the commemoration of April 6th 1994.
on 07 Apr 2008 at 17:18 3.Guy said …
I do not know how the Western Countries would have reacted had it happened to one of them, but I know that they would not have ignored it.
Better is the miracle of forgiveness. I’ve lived to see a Genocide Survivor forgive and live with the very person who killed his brother back in 1994.
Lived to see a mother who lost all her seven children and husband, go and look at the killer in the face and say..I forgive you.
Lived to see a Widow and her handicapped children take food to the killer of their husband and father at the 1930 Prison.
But better than all of that, I have lived to see 14 years of Reconciliation among the two ethnicities. No more Tutsi or Hutu. Only one proud nation. Only Rwandans and to the genocide they say : NEVER AGAIN.