Since my last post, I have been strangely fascinated with the Rwandan Massacres that took place in 1994. My interest was peaked first by the images that I saw from Salgado's book Migrations and the movie, "The Salt of the Earth." This was one of those images. This is the depiction of a school where hundreds of Tutsi (a race in Rwanda) went to hide from the Hutu's who were blood thirsty because of killings that happened by the Tutsi to the Hutu's centuries prior. In their attempted genocide, the Hutu's left all of their previous Rwandan traditions of having mercy on those that are in school and churches. Thinking that they were going to be safe at this school, hundreds of Tutsi piled in-- all of them massacred.
"Left to Tell" is the account of Immaculee Ilibagiza who was hid in her Hutu pastor's bathroom with 6 other women for 3 months. She recounts the story of her thoughts during the killings; most of her family died.
This is hard for me to see. I thought that genocides stopped with the Holocaust? I had never heard of this one and it happened just before I was born. Awareness for situations like this needs to be raised.
Salgado, Sebastiao. Migrations: Humanity in Transition. Pamphlet. New York: Aperture Foundation, Inc., 2000. [pg. 206-207]. Print
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