Memorial

As we have been here for three weeks now, we found it was time to go to the genocide memorial. Not fun, but has to be done. We first had to struggle to get there, the Kigali 20 km run was today. After a detour we found it, a nice modern building on the outskirts of town. The ground floor had a short history, colonilisation, ID cards with race stated on it, but also shocking facts like that there had been killings before, and they got away with it, and the fact that the international community did absolutely nothing. The had a couple of video's with people telling what the effect was on there day to day life ten years after. Upstairs they had pictures of children, with a few facts e.g. Peter, 3 years old, likes rice, favorite person is his sister, favorite toy is his red car, kill by machete in his mothers arms. What was also very good is that the had a section about the second world war and Bosnia, as if to say "you're not alone".

What happened here, is so far beyond understanding. How people manage to keep on living on a daily basis is incomprehensible.