The Kenyan Dream
Countries that have suffered civil war will concur with me that it did not just start overnight and people started slashing each other, no, people don’t just become vicious suddenly, something has to simmer up first. Rwanda today speaks in one voice saying, “never again”. The 1994 genocide left many physically, mentally, and emotionally wounded. Various events preceded the mass killing even before the country attained independence, the Belgium present by then, favored the Tutsi creating a legacy of tension that will explode into violence years later. Prior to the real action of mass homicide, planning, budgeting, recruitment and incitement to the desperate youth was done significantly. Someone was directly or indirectly involved in financing and inciting. Someone campaigned for action against another community, eventually resulting into an ethically motivated violence that became full blow humanitarian crisis. The actual perpetrators were not just mere villagers, nor o
By moses owino
10 years ago