Like Auschwitz or the killing fields of Cambodia, today’s memorials in Rwanda to the almost unimaginable horrors of the genocide there 20 years ago are testimony to those who died – a reminder of an unintelligible evil we must confront
Last weekend 20 years ago, on 6 April, the Rwandan genocide began. Within 100 days, something like 800,000 people – mostly, but not entirely, Tutsi – were killed, brutally and often crudely, in many cases with the use of everyday farm tools such as machetes.On a recent trip to Rwanda with the Catholic aid agency Cafod, my companions and I visited several genocide memorials. But we also saw a country full of the living, a country rapidly developing with building projects and new roads at every turn. Rwanda is a place where people are
10 April 2014, The Tablet
Thinking the unthinkable
Rwanda genocide, 20 years on
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