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After Genocide
"Ours is, appallingly, an age of genocide...
Our obligation, and it is an obligation, is to take in what human beings are capable of doing to one another, not spontaneously (crimes of this order are never spontaneous) but when mobilized to think of other human beings--people who were their school friends, neighbors, co-workers, and fellow parishioners--as not human beings at all, and when organized for and directed to the task of slaughter. For the issue, finally, is not judgment. It is understanding. To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk--it is part of being a moral adult."
Susan Sontag, from her preface to _Machete Season:
The Killers in Rwanda Speak_ by Jean Hatzfeld(2003).
This plaque is located on a wall of names memorializing the victims of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide.
Kigali, Rwanda. Afrika.
June, 2005.
After Genocide
"Ours is, appallingly, an age of genocide...
Our obligation, and it is an obligation, is to take in what human beings are capable of doing to one another, not spontaneously (crimes of this order are never spontaneous) but when mobilized to think of other human beings--people who were their school friends, neighbors, co-workers, and fellow parishioners--as not human beings at all, and when organized for and directed to the task of slaughter. For the issue, finally, is not judgment. It is understanding. To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk--it is part of being a moral adult."
Susan Sontag, from her preface to _Machete Season:
The Killers in Rwanda Speak_ by Jean Hatzfeld(2003).
This plaque is located on a wall of names memorializing the victims of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide.
Kigali, Rwanda. Afrika.
June, 2005.