Some people who have read my blog have said they couldn’t read every post because some of the posts were too sad, or the photos were too graphic, and they couldn’t bear it.
This is true: Rwanda’s story is a desperately sad one, and the photos that illustrate it are very graphic and shocking. That is perhaps the most compelling reason why we should not turn away. Hundreds of thousands of Rwandans struggled to survive this horror, and ultimately, very few Tutsis escaped with their lives. Over eight hundred thousand didn't survive.
It is to these people, both the survivors and the victims, that we owe the duty of looking at the photos and reading the stories. We ignored them while the genocide was happening. The least we can do is look at the aftermath.
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