"Today is a special day because we get to remember our dead in a special way and bury them," Cynthia said. "We miss our mama and papa, we never got to know them."
That from an
eleven year old girl whose parents were slaughtered in ethnic violence.
Hundreds of thousands died in a massive, systematic, and planned genocidal rampage in Rwanda, and we all looked the other way. Only Belgium out of the west even bothered showing up for ceremonies, and they're a former colonial power.
We can't forget, and we can't let our warmongering leaders get away with making more orphans, more dead, in the name of adventure and treasure.
Maybe take a moment and think about those poor bastards in Rwanda, who were left to die, and think on what we can do to make a small difference, each of us, and keep something like that from happening again and again.