CORPESES lay piled at the roadside, some with limbs hacked off, others still bleeding from skull wounds. The streets of Kigali, the capital, were beginning to smell of rotting flesh. Families dared not venture out to bury their dead. Thousands had been killed in a week of violence. Thousands more were fleeing no foot over the borders. That was Rwanda this week—and more deaths were on the way” (Rwanda np).

Not being able to bury you’re relative because of the fear of you being killed in the process, that’s not right. Once someone in you’re family has passed, its only proper that the dead relative be buried, but its wrong when the that relative that is buring that person fears for their life while trying to bury that relative. I couldn’t imagine not having the right to bury a relative because of the fear that I would be attacked or even killed. I know personally that when my granddaddy died I felt very sad. How would I have felt if I was denied the right to bury him? I ask you, what if you were denied the right to bury a loved one? What would you do and how would you feel? These are just some of the questions that happened to escape my mind on reviewing this topic. If you think not being able to bury the dead is sad, then you have another thing coming.

First come the corpses of men and older boys, slain trying to protect their sisters and mothers. Then come the women and girls, flushed out from their hiding places and cut down. Last are the babies, who may bear no wounds: they are tossed alive into the water, to drown on their way downstream. The bodies, or pieces of them, glide by for half an hour or so, the time it takes to wipe out a community, carry the victims to the banks and dump them in” (Gibbs and Mutiso np).

As the massacre persisted, violence not only took place in churches but also involved the killing of priest, women, children and babies. The church has always been considered a safe haven for anyone to come and congregate, but what happens when a small country like Rwanda is at war with itself. Unfortunately, according to Nyberg and Mori, the writers of Bloodletting Sweeps Rwanda, congregating at a church may not be the best idea for anyone who was in Rwanda (Nyberg and Mori np). Nyberg and Mori reports that “According to a Rwandan Jesuit priest who identified himself as Father Emmanuel, the Presidential Guard stormed the Jesuit Ho

Some topics in this essay:
Bleeding Rwanda, Hits Rwanda, Babies’” Zarembo, Germany Ethnic, Gibbs Mutiso, Nyberg Mori, Khmer Rouge, Rwanda Hutus, Fields Rwanda, United Nations, nyberg mori, gibbs mutiso, gibbs mutiso np, mutiso np, baby boom, nyberg mori np, mori np, relative fear, killing world, zarembo np, women children, lost massacre,