Friday, April 29, 2011
Analysis: Remembering
Growing up in the United States we often discuss the Jewish holocaust, and how brutal of a genocide that was. We have museums and countless memorials devoted to the Jews who where victimized in World War II, but even after the genocide America has turned a blind eye to the the many killed in the Rwandan genocide and we continue to not remember them enough and show everyone enough respect.
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I completely agree. I remember in 7th grade taking a trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC and meeting a survivor face to face. The one thing I remember him saying the most often was that he prays that something like this never happens again. He told us that there is more good in this world than evil and then in ourselves we can find the power to overcome the evil that surrounds us. I thought about what he said a lot while researching my topic about the Rwandan genocide, because it almost seems ironic that only 20 years later, we can hear about this on our radios and watch it on our televisions but not take any action at all. Our country stayed silent, worse they pulled out all their troops. With Tali, as an American citizen, I too feel ashamed that we did nothing.
ReplyDeleteIt's not right that we remember the Holocaust, but not the more recent genocides Hoe can we forget when so many people were dying in rwanda. How can the United States bear to turn their head and not do anything? In the movie we watched, there was only one american who stayed to help the Rwandans. How can the AMericans just flee the country and never look back? It's just not morally correct. When the united States had a chance to try to help the Rwandans they didn't they just ran away. There are going to be genocides that occur later, but we, as US citizens should stop and turn back. We should try to help as much as possible.
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