Genocide Museum Quotes and Information

Some moving quotes from the genocide museum:

“Never Again” -the Rwandan motto

“This is about our past and our future;
our nightmares and our dreams;
our fear and our hope;
which is why we begin where we end...
with the country we love...” -The message of hope at the very beginning of the museum.

The genocide has “cast a dark shadow over our lives and torn us apart.”

“The population were being conditioned to accept and join the plan to act before it was too late.” -What the media was doing during the months before the genocide

The Hutu 10 Commandments were very disturbing for me, here are a few:
-Hutu associating with or carrying out business with Tutsi neighbors is a traitor
-Hutu must know that all Tutsi are dishonest in business. Their only goal is ethnic superiority.
-The Hutu must stop taking pity on the Tutsi.
-The Hutu must be strengthened and vigilant against their common Tutsi enemy.

A civil aid wrote about the cease fire in July '92 and the peace agreement in August '93: “Human rights workers were not fooled. We did not think that someone capable of organizing massacres would suddenly turn into a democrat. We saw what was happening.”

BEWARE THESE NEXT FEW ARE GRAPHIC!!!
“My sisters were beaten with clubs and thrown into a septic tank while they were still alive.”
One woman told about a young girl (I think it was her sister) having a rock thrown at her while she was running away.
There were death lists and within hours of the president's assassination they were at the houses of those on the lists.
In Nyange, 2,000 congregants gathered in a church when the PASTOR ordered in bulldozed.
Tutsi women were raped by known HIV infected males and Hutu women who had married Tutsis were raped as punishment.
In the trial videos it showed that the genociders were able to name their victims and remember how each murder was carried out.

“Neighbors turned on neighbors, friends on friends...even family on their own family members”

A man told a story about his neighbor whos children had been very close with his own and had spent great deals of time at each others houses. This man stormed into his house during the genocide and “he said he didn't even know me.”

“5% were good, 5% were neutral and the remaining 90% were evil.”

“The genocide left over 300,000 orphans and 85,000 children were now heads of housholds”

One young boy's final words were: “Mum where can I run to?”

“There will be no humanity without forgiveness. There will be no forgiveness without justice. But justice will be impossible without humanity.” Yolande Mukagasana

“Not even the innocent survived.”