A day of genocide remembrance

Our first memorial site was a church. In the first room was a room or all the cloths that the people killed wore. It was where church had been held and people went there because they thought it would be safe because it was a place of warship. Yet the killers trapped them within the room and there are bullet holes and blood stains Everywhere. Nearly 10,000 people had been killed within this vicinity. The second room held skulls and bones left from the people killed. Some showed batter cracks on their skulls and bullet holes. You can imagine the impact it had on our group. It is hard to find a balance between respecting and truly putting yourself in the situation. It is way too hard to fully understand the positions that these people have been through, and I hope Boone has to go through this again. The thing that makes this most difficult and real is that this has happened in my life time. And that though we come to these churches and such for memorial, people from Rwanda find memories of the genocide everywhere on every street. 
The final memorial we went to was the Kigali genocide memorial.  It was one of the most informative memorials I have ever been too including the holocaust memorials I have been too.  The highlights (better described as lowlights) of this memorial was the stages of the Rwandan genocide, the children's section, and the unique section which had a wall for different genocides that have happened throughout the world.  A quote used more than once that the rwandans use to describe the genocide through there eyes was "if you knew me and you knew yourself you won't kill me" 

All in all it has been a very emotional and information packed week. I will post pictures when I get a chance. Bye!