Blog #7

Gourevitch, Phillip the author of “Remembering in Rwanda” published In the New Yorker 90.9(2014) talks about the ceremonies that the genocides have, and how the genocides were named. The ceremonies take place in a stadium that thousands of mourners trek to by midmorning when it is already hot. There is an Army band that walks to the center of the field and plays solemn hymns. In this article he talks about a man in a brown suit approaches the stage and states “I was a Fidel, a genocide survivor who was supposed to be killed.” Then it goes on talking about the people coming into the world after 1994 who have never heard of the genocides still have not been taught about it in history. Lastly, they state how the amount of people killed in a day.” At no other time in the history of our species were so many killed so fast or so intimately: roughly a million people in a hundred days, most of them butchered by hand, by their neighbors with household tools and homemade weapons.”

            This article really made me think about how bad the genocides were. When I read the book in class I got a picture in my head but then I read this article and it just all sinks in. when they talked about how the kids after 1994 have no idea about the genocides I immediately thought about the generation I am from and how true that statement is. I never learned about the genocides in history, this is the first time I am hearing about the horrific experiences those people faced.


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