President Bush toured the genocide memorial in Kigali, Rwanda today, which memorializes the million or so Rwandans slaughtered in about three months in 1994.
In the picture below, you can see a hole in the side of one skull, which is probably the work of a machete, and in another, you can see a long gash, which was definitely from a machete, the weapon of choice for those who carried out the killings.
By the way, many thanks to ABC's Ann Compton, who has been graciously lending me her camera when I need it since mine broke in Tanzania.
Here are some pictures of victims killed in the genocide, which hang in a room inside the memorial.
Here are Mr. and Mrs. Bush emerging from their 45-minute tour, conducted by the 31-year old museum director, Freddy Mutanguha, who lost his parents and three of his four sisters in the genocide.
And here, Mr. and Mrs. Bush greet Rwandans after laying a wreath outside the memorial. You can get some sense from the background of the hilly topography covered with shacks and small houses that dominates much of Kigali.
Comments (2)
Those evil monsters have to pay some how. This is just barberic. I did not remember this story. I just hope that those angeles rest in peace.
Posted by Barbara Rodriguez | February 19, 2008 9:20 PM
The world is moving toward a multilateralist model that ignores Africa. Consensus may be universal that something needs to be done. Compliance is strictly regional with self interest in authority and therefore non-existent in Africa unless one of the regional authorities can obtain opportunistic gain. The U.N. is usesless and spends most of its time and money on relativism, pursuing compliance only for those that are within the boundaries of the legal regions and administrating ineffective consensus for the those outside of authority. A false sense of security prevails in their missions and tends to become a symptom of the problem not the solution.
Posted by Larry Stone | February 20, 2008 2:15 AM