Mrs. Angeline Bandon-Bibum's Blog – March 2009 Archive (2)

By Angeline Bandon-Bibum



"April is the cruellest month,"[1] wrote T.S. Eliot in his poem, The Waste Land. This line seemed to ring true in April of 1994. On April 6, 1994, a cruel course of events would begin in Rwanda. A planned and organized massacre was executed by people across all classes from the poor subsistence farmer, to the middle class schoolmaster, local administrators, and other government officials. There have been genocides throughout human history, in continents all… Continue

It started on April 6, 1994...

The Rwandan genocide that occurred in the spring and summer of 1994 was a mind-bogglingly brutal 3-months-long massacre. At the time, most of us knew little about it. Since then, we've seen movies, like Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April, which provided sanitized and summarized views of the events. Still, it behooves us, as human beings, to understand what factors caused this tragedy to occur in modern… Continue