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When a Nation Becomes Possessed

The above image is a photo that one of my CSU students took 20 years after the Rwandan genocide. We arrived in Kigali in 2014 for a service project 20 years to the month following the genocide that took a million lives, most dying from a machete chop to the head. One thing I didn't expect as I farmed out 20 young college students from Colorado to African families through the nation's Capital of Kigali was that every student would be seated at a dinner table with one or two empty seats.  These empty seats were once belonging to members of a family who had perished in the genocide. A five year old would have been 25, and was not at dinner. A 20 year old would have been 40 years old, and was not at dinner. My CSU [...]

By |July 16th, 2020|
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