Thursday, April 28, 2011

"Priests, Doctors, and Teachers Turn Genocidal" by Mahmood Mamdani

Mamdani reflects on the atrocities which occured during the Rwandan genocide of 1994:

  • People associated with professions that value and nurture life were involved in the killings
  • These people were convinced with the idea to kill the minority group and they were also forced to kill or they might be killed themselves
  • Teachers, Priest, and Doctors all took part in the killings
  • Hospitals, Schools, and Churches which are thought of as places of safe haven were places where a majority of the murders took place. Tutsis came to hide in these places but others were willing to turn them over to the Hutus
  • Even Human Rights activists killed people
  • It is shocking that the people involved feel little remorse for their heinous actions

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