In April 1994, the Rwandan government executed one of the swiftest and bloodiest genocides in world history when the Hutu majority killed more than 800,000 Tutsi’s in just three months. When people said, “Never again” after the Nazi Holocaust, I suppose they didn’t really mean it as many of the world powers did [...]
I recently read The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari (read my review here) and already had Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle on my reading list this year. I realized that I do not know enough about the [...]
Genocide.
Don’t you just hate that word?
Don’t you feel the weight of the world on your shoulders when you sound that word out?
It makes me shudder.
I’ve really been thinking about this a lot lately. I’ve been preparing a post about book recommendations to learn more about Darfur and I realized that I would like to [...]
