| Our reporters Thijs Bouwknegt and Sebastiaan Gottlieb are at present in Rwanda for series of reports. They share with us here their first impressions of the country. |
Genocide is a phenomenon that has always existed and will continue to exist. This feeling is constantly with us in Rwanda. Shelves filled with skulls do not differ from those of Auschwitz or Cambodia, but here in Rwanda, everything is much "closer".
Refuge
In a church at Ntarama, about 5,000 Tutsi were killed by the Interahamwe.
All the skulls are here, well sorted. Clothes of all the victims are in the church. They are hung on the walls, just like mournful relics. Large holes made by grenades which were thrown inside, where thousands of people tried to find refuge, are in your face.
The birds sing
Outside, birds sing, inside everything is quiet. We are all alone with the dead.
We can touch the skulls and we believe that as long as there are men, the genocide will continue to exist.
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