I Remember Rwanda Today
10 years ago the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda began. In 100 days more than 900,000 people were killed at a rate far surpassing the genocide of the Nazis in WWII.
Today is an international day of rememberance. I remember when the genocide occured and the world sat and did nothing, with the US miscalculating the effects of the genocide and France cravenly arming the Interwame militias that carried out the genocide.
We say "Never again" yet we watch while Cambodia and then Rwanda happened and today we see the same thing in Sudan. I hope we as a planet can advance to caring as much about what goes on outside our individual borders as much as we care what goes on inside them.
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