http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/showcase-143/

This last article I had a similar eye opening reaction to. It talks about a teenage girls experience during the genocide. And tells her story, I think if I was put in her position I would completely break down, I would not be able to handle what she went through. It talks about how she was haunted many years after, and that is completely understandable. Those images will never leave her, and that has got to be hard to live with. Along with this article came a slide show of pictures that show the scars from some of the attacks on the people. Their really scary, and I know that is not a good word but I do not really have any other way of explaining it.  They look so painful I couldn’t even imagine having something like that happen to me. The whole article is moving because it talks about how she still leads a normal life after all the traumatic things she’s been through. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Fl89XOud8

My reaction to this video was that it was very moving and interesting to her. Coming from a genocide survivor, her story was amazing. She hid for 3 months from the Hutus. They hid in their neighbor’s house that was a Hutu. She hid in a bathroom with 47 woman, sitting in their in silence. And once she was let out, she came to find that almost everyone she knew and loved was dead. I could not even try to put my feet in her shoes. Her experience was so traumatizing I can’t imagine going through that, especially because she was younger and I imagine around my age. That’s something that seems so unreal to me. I can’t believe how much courage she had. This video makes me very sad because at the beginning she talks about how she doesn’t understand how any one could just go around killing people for no reason. Which is so true, the Hutu militias went around killing innocent people when they had done nothing wrong. This whole video is incredibly eye opening and truthful. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW6GyzT-wbs 

This video shows footage from Rwanda, that’s very disturbing. IT shows tons of dead bodies and just basically what it was like to be in Rwanda at this time. It really scares me and really hit me when you saw how many people were dead. Also what really moved me about this video are the statistics. The statistics that are said are really terrifying. Like for example that there were five people killed per minute. Imagining that is impossible.  This video also talks about propaganda and how it affected the genocide. They used the radio station to influence peoples opinions about the genocide and it worked. They started by luring people in and then gradually slenderizing the Tutsis. This video not only shows you the dead bodies, which were frightening but also the army. The army is also really scary because of how organized and determined they are to kill. It’s a really terrifying video which kind of made everything more realistic as if now you realize that this was a real event that happened. 

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://unimaps.com/flags-africa/rwanda-flag.gif&imgrefurl=http://unimaps.com/flags-africa/rwanda-print2.html&usg=__sIvZdxT3FAWtD2PZvlq33_WJRhc=&h=599&w=900&sz=28&hl=en&start=0&sig2=BlaAA8kpfgrnB2gT_EtoRQ&zoom=1&tbnid=xamsRNyrUYvlzM:&tbnh=128&tbnw=192&ei=UsrZTZLoBOXf0QH3k7n8Aw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dflag%2Bof%2Brwanda%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26biw%3D1233%26bih%3D579%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=303&sqi=2&page=1&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0&tx=165&ty=43

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ta3031.k12.sd.us/event/hutu%2520militia.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ta3031.k12.sd.us/event/hutus.htm&usg=__WgizGw9jikyz_qPE0WrgeBXppuU=&h=244&w=330&sz=26&hl=en&start=0&sig2=1JxQ4t0_jgDwgdfPn72yJA&zoom=1&tbnid=pdTjDCPHLi5KMM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=161&ei=MMrZTcuhIYbx0gGTlJH8Aw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhutu%2Bmilitia%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26gbv%3D2%26biw%3D1233%26bih%3D579%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=215&sqi=2&page=1&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=38&ty=93

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://travel.state.gov/_res/images/countries/maps/large/rwanda.gif&imgrefurl=http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1007.html&usg=__Cnw0nr-giTGyk-E1XTEQDIxX-n0=&h=352&w=328&sz=16&hl=en&start=0&sig2=GyIZRYB3EueoJPC40HgzpQ&zoom=1&tbnid=zLTQjpa8DpeFEM:&tbnh=152&tbnw=142&ei=M8nZTc2sJKyP0QHQ8pn8Aw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Drwanda%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26gbv%3D2%26biw%3D1233%26bih%3D579%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=139&vpy=83&dur=494&hovh=231&hovw=215&tx=99&ty=100&sqi=2&page=1&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

 http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://polosbastards.com/pb/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/Boys%2520in%2520Rwanda.jpg&imgrefurl=http://polosbastards.com/pb/rwanda-when-the-killers-go-home-pt2/&usg=__jX4BqvCbyHjEND4vlIHLl5UqEjo=&h=375&w=600&sz=158&hl=en&start=0&sig2=OnsgpxemtffUtXAXWO44KA&zoom=1&tbnid=qNGCUrJTE4uKWM:&tbnh=152&tbnw=191&ei=M8nZTc2sJKyP0QHQ8pn8Aw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Drwanda%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26gbv%3D2%26biw%3D1233%26bih%3D579%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=314&sqi=2&page=1&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0&tx=105&ty=71