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Rwanda Response

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In this topic, we looked at the genocide in Rwanda, and how it affected the many classes of people, who, for so long, had lived in harmony until the 1950's. The two peoples, the Hutus and Tutsis, lived and worked together, forming inter-marriage ties and also helping each other out, but it all changed when the Hutus started a civil war, which led to the Rwandan genocide in the 1990's. The picture shown here was used as a stimulus in our lesson, and we talked about how it made us feel, and how we reacted to it. My initial response to the photograph was one of shock and horror, at the scale that the picture shows, and then of revulsion, that this was actually done, and not just imagined. Hatred and death were expressed by the skulls, for they said death by famine or murder, and even before reading...

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