Posts Tagged ‘genocide’
A short, short, short story
A friend has a link on her blog to another interesting blog–this all sounds so incestuous–called Six Sentences. Just what it sounds: Stories, about anything, that are only six sentences long. I decided to try my hand at it, with words from a woman I met months ago, that have stuck with me… I also [...]
The lonely coffin
One other image from the memorial today in Gisozi sticks with me: a coffin, left alone in one of the museum rooms. I could see half of it through the glass door. It had been left alone, all the people that arrived with it taking their chairs around the program, or heading down to the [...]
Genocide memorial day
Today is the 14th anniversary of the genocide. I’m used to genocide anniversaries. I spent 8 years organizing Holocaust memorials in my home town and on my undergraduate campus, and I tried to get a Rwandan genocide memorial going at SIPA, though it never took off. Which is to say, I mark genocide anniversaries by [...]
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