Horrible news reached us last week: Paul, the young man we met at the survivor talk in the Memorial Center, made us aware that another attack on the Kigali Memorial Center took place. The grenade left one person injured, but fortunately nobody was killed this time.
This is the second attack on the Rwanda's biggest memorial which is home to the remains of over 300,000 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Like the first attack last year, which left one person killed, this one also took place in April during the Commemoration Week of the genocide.
Hard to understand why people would do such things to other people... I really do admire Paul for the job he is doing. Not only must it be very difficult to be confronted with the past every day by working at the Memorial Center, but also does he still today put his life at a higher risk by working at the KMC. I am very thankful that nothing happened to him, or as he put it: "...[let's] stay in touch if we all are still alive..."
Monday, April 20, 2009
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