Aug 20, 2006 23:07
This was simply a slaughter of civilians...A slaughter that lasted a mere 100 days but took 800,000 lives. Police and army refused to help them, the Tutsis must die. "The killer was a very big man. He had this huge club full of nails and sharp pieces of metal. He was such an expert he could kill with just one blow to the head. I wanted this man to kill me. People had been dying in such terrible ways and he would do it quickly," Human Beings were forced through some of the greatest atrocities known to man: Young women were hauled into the undergrowth and gang raped, among them a girl called Rahel, whose attackers then gouged her eyes out. She begged to be led to the lake so she could drown herself but there were too many militiamen down by the water and she bled to death..."I saw my wife, who was still alive. They had cut off her legs and arms and left her to bleed to death. I never saw my children again. I don't know how they died."..."He clutched his wife and kissed his daughters. "I knew these were our last minutes. I wanted to believe, to have hope that we could all escape, that there would be a miracle. But as much as I tried to believe, I knew it wasn't true and I wanted to cry out to stop this from happening to my children. I thought: why are we praying? We should be shouting at God."
As the future we must find ways to prevent genocide, remember Rwanda and save Darfur.