In 2009, when I was in college, I had the pleasure of meeting an older student in my course, who was Rwandan, and lived through this. I’ll never forget him telling me he saw his sister hacked with a machete. He saw his mother and father beaten and slashed. I’ll never forget him telling me he could not swim, and still, he and other children ran into a nearby river hoping that they would either be able to cross or get dragged away from what they were witnessing. Of all the things he told me, the strongest memory I have is of how he was genuinely the kindest, nicest man I have ever met, which almost seems unfathomable given what he and his people have been through.
Some-Operation-9059 on July 6th, 2025 at 14:31 UTC »
I remember seeing dump trucks full of bodies dumped into mass graves. 1 million lives in 100 days. Scars on humanity.
LionOfNaples on July 6th, 2025 at 14:55 UTC »
The result of decades of dehumanization propaganda
NostalgicBear on July 6th, 2025 at 15:10 UTC »
In 2009, when I was in college, I had the pleasure of meeting an older student in my course, who was Rwandan, and lived through this. I’ll never forget him telling me he saw his sister hacked with a machete. He saw his mother and father beaten and slashed. I’ll never forget him telling me he could not swim, and still, he and other children ran into a nearby river hoping that they would either be able to cross or get dragged away from what they were witnessing. Of all the things he told me, the strongest memory I have is of how he was genuinely the kindest, nicest man I have ever met, which almost seems unfathomable given what he and his people have been through.