Rwandan Genocide

RavennaSeattle1911

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/30/60minutes/main2218371.shtml

this woman forgives the man who killed her friends or family -i think its just unreal

i think the guy was already released form jail-can you beleive this ?

Byrnzie

It is remarkable. I've just started reading the book 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda'
by Philip Gourevitch. It's pretty harrowing stuff.

On another note. What's with the 1911 in your board name?

RavennaSeattle1911

Today, Tutsis are still in control and are sharing power with Hutus. The economy is coming back, hundreds of thousands of Tutsis have come back from exile, and the country hopes to attract tourists.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/30/60minutes/main2218371_page3.shtml



The country may be peaceful, but it’s still on edge. Some Hutus want to resume the genocide, and some Tutsis still want revenge. Immaculee knows Rwandans can never forget but believes they must forgive. Revenge, she told Simon, only prolongs the pain.

"And I don’t want it. I don’t want them after killing my family to give me this luggage in my heart, in my belly, you know, to hold this anger," she says.

So Immaculee has even forgiven Alex, the man who killed two of her relatives and who would have killed her.

Asked if she felt angry when she saw him, Immaculee says no.

"You weren't tempted to take his head and shake it against a brick wall?" Simon asks.

"No, completely in my heart I was aware it won’t change anything. It won’t change his heart. It won’t bring back people he killed. That’s the worst thing," she replies.

"No. But it might’ve felt good," Simon remarks.

"It doesn’t. That’s the funny thing. It won’t. I know well," Immaculee says.

Now she's a woman on a mission to spread the story of the genocide hoping it can prevent future atrocities. She has giving lectures; she has written a book; and she is determined to stop the inevitable revisionists who claim the genocide never happened.

"You started to hear on radios, people denying that it wasn’t genocide. And that almost takes your breath away," Immaculee tells Simon. "Like, what I have lived isn’t genocide? What is genocide? Every child, every woman, every man, Tutsi, at least in my village as I have seen, is dead."

RavennaSeattle1911

1911?i dont know- forgot why -maybe i think that was a better year than now-at least in seattle -its all screwed up

Byrnzie

RavennaSeattle1911 wrote:

1911?i dont know- forgot why -maybe i think that was a better year than now-at least in seattle -its all screwed up

Interesting. I wonder what did happen in Seattle in 1911? It would be interesting to find out. You nver know, you may surprise yourself?

RavennaSeattle1911

just one word-plastics

the year plastics were invented and cable cars

just kidding

i dont know but seattle by nelson was a good book
read skid row book

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=760423569&searchurl=isbn%3D0394482298%26nsa%3D1

Byrnzie

'From the first Commission Report for 1912: The Port of Seattle came into existence on September 5, 1911, by a vote of the people of the Port District held on that date in accordance with the Port District Act of March 14, 1911. The work of the commission for the first six months was confined almost entirely to the preparation of projects which were duly approved by the people at a special election held on March 5, 1912. The program embraced six distinct projects...'

How Pearl Jam may have looked in 1911
http://www.satiche.org.uk/vinbbp/phot1488.jpg

Photo 1911
http://content.lib.washington.edu/loc/image/83.10.7929.JPG

Me thinks we have veered off on a strange and totally unrelated tangent here!

RavennaSeattle1911

skid row is by murray morgan i think

http://www.amazon.com/Skid-Road-Murray-Cromwell-Morgan/dp/0295958464/sr=1-3/qid=1165937335/ref=pd_bbs_3/105-2516272-7322868?ie=UTF8&s=books

Byrnzie

RavennaSeattle1911 wrote:

skid row is by murray morgan i think

http://www.amazon.com/Skid-Road-Murray-Cromwell-Morgan/dp/0295958464/sr=1-3/qid=1165937335/ref=pd_bbs_3/105-2516272-7322868?ie=UTF8&s=books

That looks good.