Today is the 11th anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide during which at least 800,000 people were murdered. It was one of the world's worst atrocities of the century and certainly the worst to be covered during the age of cable news television. It occured a year, almost to the week, after politicians and dignitaries in Washington solemnly promised 'Never again' while inaugurating the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
For more information, I wrote a long series of essays on the occasion of the 10th anniversary last year. The last of which can be found here (you can access previous posts from there... and I'm aware that some of the photos don't appear properly).
4 comments:
is a contrarian anthing like a paradox?? w/d that be like a naysaying optimist??
upstate huh?? is that passed Westchester or you speak french b/c you grew up in Peru, NY and you can wave to Canada from there??
Actually, I grew up a ways south of Peru, NY.
Speaking of "never again" I thought it was an interesting op/ed by Nicholas Kristof in the NY Times today re: Bush's trip to Rome:
"President Bush and other world leaders are honoring John Paul II in a way that completely misunderstands his message. We pay him no tribute if we lower our flags to half-staff and send a grand presidential delegation to his funeral, when at the same time we avert our eyes as villagers are slaughtered and mutilated in the genocide unfolding in Darfur."
Last year I posted a day by day blog of the events of the Rwandan genocide. It is online here:
100 Days of Rwanda
http://www.silent-edge.org/mt/rwanda
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