# one of the million stories from Third World
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then You win !"
"When the genocide began, I was 14 years old and in the second year of my secondary school. I was taken with my auntm uncle and their two children to a Belgian Red Cross Centre. A week later, someone warned my uncle that the militia were planning to kill him. When they came, it was just my uncle and me out in the bush. We were returning home when four men with machetes called us. They told my uncle that he knew why they had to kill him. He pleaded with the militia not to kill me, telling them that I was daughter of a neighbour. The men told me to run and rejoin others at the Red Cross Centre. And then they hacked him to death with their machetes.
The genocide was sheer horror. All the Tutsi families were hunted down, and mine were not spared. Evry one of my immediate family members were killed, including my grandparents. Tutsi were hunted in the streets, in the swamps, and all over the hills.
I was still young when I lost my parents and it hasn`t been easy to continue life without them. It`s not that easy to survive alone when you`re 14 years old - go to school and make a success of your studies when you have nobody to care about you and encourage you.
Ten yeras later, my country has made astonishing progress in reconstructing itself. The country is secure and poverty has been reduced. Many refugees are returning to the country. The administration, the schools and the hospitals work. We adopted a new constitution and had presidental elections. Many will say that the elections were not perfect, but what the mattered most was to find way to recover a normal politicial life, and to give the population a real hope of democracy.
The big challange is the removal of the spectre of genocide which still casts a long shadow. I know that reconciliation is not simple - it demands many efforts from everybody. I chose to study journalism, in memory of what happened to my family and my country. I want to talk about it, and not to let the world forget. But it`s also important for me, personally - because when I can write and talk, it means that I`m alive. The road is long, but I have faith that we will rise again, because I can see how much we`ve achieved already"
ALice Musabende, a student in Rwanda
"The Rough Guide to a Better World" by Department for International Development
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"When the genocide began, I was 14 years old and in the second year of my secondary school. I was taken with my auntm uncle and their two children to a Belgian Red Cross Centre. A week later, someone warned my uncle that the militia were planning to kill him. When they came, it was just my uncle and me out in the bush. We were returning home when four men with machetes called us. They told my uncle that he knew why they had to kill him. He pleaded with the militia not to kill me, telling them that I was daughter of a neighbour. The men told me to run and rejoin others at the Red Cross Centre. And then they hacked him to death with their machetes.
The genocide was sheer horror. All the Tutsi families were hunted down, and mine were not spared. Evry one of my immediate family members were killed, including my grandparents. Tutsi were hunted in the streets, in the swamps, and all over the hills.
I was still young when I lost my parents and it hasn`t been easy to continue life without them. It`s not that easy to survive alone when you`re 14 years old - go to school and make a success of your studies when you have nobody to care about you and encourage you.
Ten yeras later, my country has made astonishing progress in reconstructing itself. The country is secure and poverty has been reduced. Many refugees are returning to the country. The administration, the schools and the hospitals work. We adopted a new constitution and had presidental elections. Many will say that the elections were not perfect, but what the mattered most was to find way to recover a normal politicial life, and to give the population a real hope of democracy.
The big challange is the removal of the spectre of genocide which still casts a long shadow. I know that reconciliation is not simple - it demands many efforts from everybody. I chose to study journalism, in memory of what happened to my family and my country. I want to talk about it, and not to let the world forget. But it`s also important for me, personally - because when I can write and talk, it means that I`m alive. The road is long, but I have faith that we will rise again, because I can see how much we`ve achieved already"
ALice Musabende, a student in Rwanda
"The Rough Guide to a Better World" by Department for International Development
Pozostawie to bez komentarza, mimo iż, aż się prosi....sami pomyślcie !
posted by mocarny at
11:23 PM
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Tak to niestety tam wygladalo i jeszcze nie wszedzie niestety minelo... Niestety to jest zapomniany lad:|
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Anonimowy, at 10:27 PM
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