It is a regretful moment
It is an oath that we don’t want to remember, that April, 7th 1994
I am referring to it today as history
Twenty-one years ago, it was a calamity, gnashing, barbarous,
cruelty……
It was agony, disastrous and inhuman
A regretful situation that lasted for 100 days but caused
national disaster
Interehamwe slaughtered Tutsis in cold blood
And the world was in arms akimbo watching the slaughter
A genocide that recorded approximately 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu sympathizers dead

A regretful episode, we talk about it only when we are commemorating it
We solemnly pledge not to witness such an incidence, ‘genocide’ on our mother land again

The Sages are musing on what called for such a 100-day menace in Rwanda
But seems there is no answer

Tutsi and Hutus are peaceful people who are easily categories through
Marriages or cattle acquisition
Then what happened in 100 days……????

A regretful event that that cause a lot lives
Atrocities, holocaust, brutalities, massacre, killing ………………
But later the expert define it as genocide
Ah! If the world watch the genocide with stories and nice definitions,
Is like a skilful player about to score and the referee offer an infringement…..,
It is unfair, isn’t it?
Men, women and children were murdered with hand weapons, machetes, and clubs in schools, churches and hospitals.

The world remain spectators for perpetrators to do their own criminality
This is a regretful event
My eyes are dropping tears
My ears are aching with stories
Our hearts are traumatized with unbelievable torture
And this is the basic definition of genocide

But the world watched, recorded videos and took pictures without remorse
Today is a commemoration day
We will never forget this day in Rwandan life
We pledge not to experience this in Rwanda again
Regretful day. The day without placatory

By Daniel Djan
Student of Hanyang University
Global health and Development
Seoul, Korea
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