Eleven years on...
We will never forget.
I was listening to Radio Rwanda online the other day and 'ese mbaze nde?' came on and it just overwhelmed me with sadness. Yes I am still angry, yes I carry a lot of hatred in me but as Raymond said on his blog, we the Tutsis can stand proud and tall and say 'We are still here'. I don't want to write a long post about the genocide and its aftermath because words cant really do justice to an occasion like this, but for the next week we are going to be united in our grief.
I was listening to Radio Rwanda online the other day and 'ese mbaze nde?' came on and it just overwhelmed me with sadness. Yes I am still angry, yes I carry a lot of hatred in me but as Raymond said on his blog, we the Tutsis can stand proud and tall and say 'We are still here'. I don't want to write a long post about the genocide and its aftermath because words cant really do justice to an occasion like this, but for the next week we are going to be united in our grief.
posted by Minzo at 8:05 PM
6 Comments:
nha kundi minzo,and that song can fill one with sadness.
°sigh°
To me it was just some sad story. Something I didn't pay attention to, because I was 13 years old and still into kid's stuff. About 6 months ago I ran across someone's old blog of pictures from the fields. And I cried for days.
There are no words for the impression that made on me. Even now.
Minega we're all here to tell the story and educate. No one can change what Rwanda went through in 1994, but we can linger in the memory of all the people ruthlessly killed to fulfill a vain cause. Hopefully a genocide like that will never occur, and for once peace shall prevail. Nothing wrong with wishful thinking, right?
It just occured to me that I may have come across as a little insensitive, and I didn't mean that. I was just thinking it was sad that some parts of the world are enduring one thing and my world is so separated from others as to be a completely different reality.
Or maybe it's age. Maybe my parents protected me. I certainly wouldn't tell Abbey what I have learned as I have gotten older.
But.
I don't even know what to say.
I didnt find your comments insensitive Lish- I understand what you were trying to say up there. No worries!
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