" For three months, the interhamwe militias massacred entire villages of Tutsi and moderate Hutu - on average 5000 people every day. By mid-July, almost one tenth of the people in the small but densely-populated nation had been slain."
Although we know that the genocide in Rwanda was terrible, putting it into a statistical value is much more meaningful. I really shows the damage that was done.
The second article I read was 10 Years Later in Rwanda, The Dead Are Ever Present. The article talks about how to do preserve the bodies, or to properly bury them. The dispute is a big one, on one hand, they want the bodies to be preserved behind glass to show what really happened there, and to last as a memory to help build a better future. On the other hand, they want the bodies to be buried due to the level of respect that would be missing, should the preserve the bodies. The darkness is conveyed in almost the same way as the previous article. Although the problem of the bodies and the government still show that even after 10 years, the horrors of this genocide still exist. The one part of the article that really impacted me was this:
"A woman has her arms over her face, as if protecting herself from attack. One of her forearms has been hacked off. Another, a youngster, has a thin crack across his skull, the imprint of a machete."
This shows that the entire event was severely violent, and it's extremely hard to imagine that an entire population, to even imagine that one person could do this, is terrible.
Both authors show the same forms to convey the darkness, they focus on the tragedies. They showed how the turmoils between the two cultures really escalated into something huge. Also how the corporations over seas who were really the only ones who could help, practically did nothing to stop any of this until it was too late.
