Rwanda Is In My Prayers!!!!

Today I felt all the pain that the Rwandans have been feeling for all these years. Gilbert and Mukiza are two extraodinary people and today helped to clarify that. Before today I was a person who knew nothing about the genocide but thanks to these two brave men who took us to the memorial I know know more knowledge than many others. Today I felt all the pain that the Rwandans have been feeling for many years and the hardest part was standing next to Mukiza and Gilbert since I saw all the hurt in their eyes. I found out that there were thousands of people who were killed and unable to do anything about it. The little children sat and watched as their families were chopped up, shot, raped, and even HIV infected on purpose. One of the worst things that I read was that people used HIV as a weapon to destroy the lives of women and if they were pregnant it even affected the lives of their unborn child. When I saw the visuals of the people who were killed it gave me an idea of what the streets were like with all the dead bodies lying around. As I read about the part which spoke about the United States sending help months later it made me furious to know that my own government didnt have a heart for those who were desperately in need. As I kept walking through the memorial I came upon a room which had baby pictures in it, at this point I knew I would no longer be able to hold in my emotions. There were many baby pictures and below it were brief descriptions of each child, their like, favorite food, and their cause of death. None of the children in this particular room was older than the age 13 and their causes of death caused large rivers of tears to flow down my face as if I personally were the child that was the victim of such brutality. The one that hit me the hardest was this beautiful little girl with beautiful brown eyes, age 2 was killed by being slammed into a wall. There were also two sisters whos cause of death was while taking a shower a grenade was tossed into the tub. This brought to my attention that these people had no heart. This effects the people because many are traumatized and left without families and grew up with strangers. Even after 10+ years there is still a hurt in the eyes of the people in this country, a hurt that I personally believe will never go away. However many here believe that in two more generations the hurt will go away.

I PRAY THAT THERE WILL BE NO MORE GENOCIDES BECAUSE THIS NOT ONLY EFFECTS THE PEOPLE WHO WENT THROUGH BUT PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF WHO WISHED I COULD HAVE HELPED.

Queen Tiffany Keeps Rwanda In My Prayers