“In one hundred days, almost one million men, women, and children were murdered by their neighbours, schoolmates, classmates, colleagues, relatives and supposed friends. An estimated 400,000 of the dead were children, and 95,000 more were orphaned. Children were brutally massacred – killed in their homes, in schools, and in hospitals. Newborn babies were murdered in the maternity clinics where they were born. More babies were stolen from their mothers, only to be butchered. Tutsi mothers were forced to kill their own kids. Thousands of children were drowned, burned, buried alive, thrown down toilets while wounded and left for dead. They threw them into water to spare them death by a machete. It was in the words of one survivor, “a last gesture of love,” others strapped on the backs of their mothers, downed when their mothers were forced to jump into the rivers. Many of the young girls who survived were victimized in different ways: abducted, raped, impregnated. What kind of human beings can do this to children? After witnessing the most sickening sights, I too ask that question over and over again as I watch the battered and mutilated orphans.” – Barbara Colorosso
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:00:01 +0000
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