“It was a big family. We were sixteen…”

 …now, we are two.”

- A survivor of the genocide in Rwanda speaking to Canadian General Romeo Dallaire in the documentary Shake Hands with the Devil.  There is a bit of hyperbole to the piece, a little too heavy on the Great White Hope angle, but he was there.  And that says it all – especially since the United States and everyone’s favorite liberal looked the other way.

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“Why ‘never again’ is not enough”

Bystanders to Genocide

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