22 years ago Rwanda suffered from a genocide, we believe that these people are still suffering emotionally. Despite the fact that this genocide happened years ago, there are still traces of hurt and hardship. Imagine for a moment that during the time of the genocide you were five and your parents were killed right in front of your eyes. It’s been 2 decades, and you are now 27, would you have forgotten about your parents deaths? No, something as traumatic as that will not have just left your mind. You will be emotionally scarred forever, whether you choose to forgive the people or not. The Rwandan genocide has left its mark on the people both physically and emotionally. Although the people of Rwanda are beginning to build up their economy once more, the horrors of the genocide in 1994, cannot be …show more content…
If you are seeing these kinds of marks from the genocide, and you know that your family suffered the same way, wouldn’t that remind you of them? The interview with the old woman in the National Geographic Article “In Rwanda, Reconciliation is Hard Won,” she counted 15 of her family members being murdered. Even after a few months, won’t she still think of her family members? Won’t she be sad? In the same article they showed a picture of the orphans at the refugee camp. Some of the orphans looked old enough to have understood the event; they were old enough to realize that they were alone in the world because of what the past held. The results from the genocide caused hatred between the Hutus and the Tutsis’, the Tutsis’ hate the Hutu for what they did. Like if a Tutsis’ neighbor is a Hutu, they won’t talk to each other, and when Tutsi see a Hutu they will be reminded of what had happened to their relatives/family members. These past actions have created a barrier between these two groups, one that was there before but is even more prominent