Archive for April, 2009
“We Have All Been Hurt”
“Each one of us knows what it is like both to be wronged and to commit wrong against another,” wrote Jordan J. Ballor in a recent review of “As We Forgive” a book which explores the process of forgiveness and reconciliation in response to the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
The notion that Rwandans can teach Americans [...]
The Pain of April
15 years ago this month years of tension, violence, and hatred exploded into genocide in Rwanda. For millions of Rwandans, April will always be a month of pain. In our initial investigation for our documentary film project Reconciliation’s Reach one survivor, Felesta Mukasangwa said to us, “Whenever April comes, I remember what happened to me, [...]