Apology
I went to the presentation on Darfur at OSU. The speaker was a young and petite african-american woman who spoke with an accent. She was also a survivor of Rwanda genocide that happened 13 years ago. Her grandmother was killed the first day from a bullet in her head. Her parents were murdered too. So were her aunts and uncles. Friends and cousins also brutally killed.
She talked of how it was like in Rwanda: how HIV positive males were specifically given order to rape as many woman as possible; how the soldiers killed with no mercy--whether they were a baby took from its mother's breasts or a grandmother who could barely walk. The ones with money could ask to be killed whereas some were killed helplessly with machetes and guns. She talked of young girls and women were raped daily; some were killed after and some were only saved only to be raped again the next day.
Will Darfur become yet another splitting image of Rwanda?
And here i was: complaining about band, my classes, boy problems, clothes, the Nine West flats, facebook and prom and money.
So why am i becoming unhealthy again with myself?
She talked of how it was like in Rwanda: how HIV positive males were specifically given order to rape as many woman as possible; how the soldiers killed with no mercy--whether they were a baby took from its mother's breasts or a grandmother who could barely walk. The ones with money could ask to be killed whereas some were killed helplessly with machetes and guns. She talked of young girls and women were raped daily; some were killed after and some were only saved only to be raped again the next day.
Will Darfur become yet another splitting image of Rwanda?
And here i was: complaining about band, my classes, boy problems, clothes, the Nine West flats, facebook and prom and money.
So why am i becoming unhealthy again with myself?