readership draw a charity, or genocidal lies dormant in all of us - Wojciech Tochman and death
my notebooks are swollen like corpses in the water, (...) my notebooks stink, everything they have, comes up to me now throat. And until recently I wanted to hear about all the dead. Each death record, every rape, every infection, every rate cut, each child drowned in shit
closed last page I think a long time, yet I can not reach. I put the book and I feel like I ran out of words, as if something held me back from the comments. I survive. I cry.
first time I feel helpless when it comes to writing. In my head I am utter emptiness of mind 'and simultaneously, I would like to convey. Terrible to say - is not enough. Moved by - of course, but what can? Indeed, I have no idea on how to describe the book.
Everything has been done. Already we know that death will draw
Today A report by Wojciech Tochman the genocide in Rwanda, a day after it properly. The image on the - in the land of a thousand hills
and a million smiles , in the minds and homes of people. Those who survived and those who murdered them. There is only one - there are those who have died. There are no names of victims, torturers burned the evidence because of personal and population censuses. Because the few remaining witnesses, beheaded when the whole family. There are no graves inscribed, for the mass graves, for which corpses were thrown murdered Tutsi. There are mummified, covered with lime body to certify the cruel crime. Crimes, as has happened in this tiny, small as our province the country - Rwanda. Land of a thousand hills, which, consuming the bones of dead have become witnesses to the death of a million people.
now will not even numbers? Number of victims inscribed on the monument pricks the eyes of the perpetrators? There is no family in Rwanda, in which the offender would not be genocide. Or victim. Families of the perpetrators, of course, is much more. Relatives killers pray on their knees. I kneel killer. The majority are Roman Catholics. Apparently the number of those who were killed - as seen every Sunday on his way to the house of God - hinders national reconciliation. So the number of painted over.
catalyst for the genocide in Rwanda was an attack on the presidential plane at Kigali airport on 6 April 1994 year. Hutu Convinced that they stand as representatives of the Tutsi attack move to take revenge for them wiped from the earth. Armed with machetes, knives and primitive weapons are killing anyone who stands in their way. Reach every home in which they live Tutsi. Their goal is to trace and memory ZATRA after this tribe. But not only that we draw is Today death. It is also a picture of what is left in the minds of survivors, in the minds of murdering and those who were born 17 years ago, often being the result of rape. Today półHutu Tutsi born by a woman and living in their family (if it survived) as a descendant of the murderer. Today, we draw the death relation to specific places on earth. Where the victim lived side by side and each category to sight the house to welcome neighbors greeting. And injuries? They hide deep - we both. Because nobody is able to help them. You can not undo the wrongs in order to save those who stayed, or you can not understand and forgive what they did tormentors.
shocking numbers? Here you go, to illustrate - 10 000 killed per day, giving some 417 persons per hour, which crushed the skull with a machete, possibly with the "laziness" or drunkenness, and so shot through 100 days which gives 1 000 000 people ( million dead PEOPLE ). Half, ie 500 000 killed Hutu reached after almost a month murder. There are still two months to the end of genocide, two months during the which killed a further five hundred thousand Rwandans. And the world remained silent, passively waiting for the UN, looking at the bloody river begins its new run.
But I wanted to write about numbers, but about a neutral attitude of those who need help. The passivity of the said UN and church. This is the church in Rwanda today to apply tribal division, which since the genocide abandoned authorities and the public.
missionaries in Rwanda, together with local priests to care for the faithful distribution of Hutus and Tutsis. So were a hundred and fifty years ago, and now. The clergy is nourished by this division: now oppressed people suffering under the regime of Hutu Tutsi. The church - of course - must be the weaker ones.
course scared me the cruelty of fighting (though hard to speak about the fight at the defenseless Tutsis), senseless death, bloody murders and rapes, but most struck by the attitude of the priests. Clerics who had support for the believer to be a nation in a moment of doubt and danger. I am unable to understand the cowardice of priests in the face of death, because it is such the same people, like everyone else. I did not to blame, because she probably stchórzyłabym, fled without looking back. But if they were able to exit the secure area just to the church in which the front of their captors were hiding Tutsis amount monstrance, not looking at those who are about to die in the fire, who will witness the death of their children has already surpassed my tolerance and understanding. And the fact that no priest on the subject did not want to talk Tochman, even angry at the memory, he turned the whole story trying to prove guilt those that are no longer for me is ineffable, incomprehensible and terrifying. And what about those who are joining the oppressors, they themselves become a murdering, raping and releasing hiding Tutsis? Is the church was embroiled in the genocide in Rwanda? About this does not say this too does not write. Taboo subject, hypocrisy - and where is the compassion and support, even spiritual? There are also a possibility that there is a theory which states that genocide was a way to eliminate the very fast-growing (and spawn) state. Rwanda is a country whose position encouraged the tourist tours, the natural wealth could be the driving engine of money (not necessarily the Rwandan people.) But the people of this country were not an obstacle to the passage. He was on it one way - washing the hands without messing up the blood could have been done. In this way the Father Stanislaw Filipek explains the genocide in Rwanda:
Rwanda is the most densely populated country in the world. I had something to do with it. Global companies that produce condoms, and present in their interest to governments in Rwanda zwietrzyły business. Sell \u200b\u200bcondoms here as much as possible. And pills, spirals. Hit resistance. Because in Rwanda is a strong Catholic Church and its teachings. Thus was launched the death machine. Different types of campaigns, to use contraception. And when this failed, the world came up with a definitive solution for Rwanda. Genocide.
The fact that we know so little about the genocide in Rwanda Wojciech Tochman in an interview with Ivy says that ignorance, so I think we should be ashamed. Because of that expected from the world predators: the silence of the graves of the victims . I added that, since the memory of this event does not relieve us or distance in time and space, or cultural differences.
I have no doubt that the murderers need to talk. (...) In the interests of their own butts need to know what guided them.
Today we draw the death also calls for torturers, held a prison sentence for the crimes committed. Those who are in such a cruel way of murdering, in cold blood, without thinking about what they do today, say that either led them Satan, or that they are Hutu attacked Tutsi, or made a mistake, because it was not rape, since the victim did not protest too much. Many other nonsense falls with paragraph murderers, because they believed that they are doing well. Reading this report you have to realize that they - executioners - and it's hard, that someone they once so directed. Then they believed that what they are doing is good, that they are acting in the name of higher goals (as priests). Some feelings are consumed in their minds, perhaps some of them regret and these stupid explanations are an attempt to clean up the win, as the road to a normal life.
and the second one is probably hard to believe in God today. Surviving hard to believe in another person, to trust the authorities and other nations. The more that you can see every step of the traces of what happened on a rainy day in April. Each hill strewn with corpses, now hidden under the crust of their bones - because it made no sense to identify corpses, when there was nobody to be identified (in the pits dug by the Hutu were lying the whole family). Because every surviving building is a living tomb, and the walls heard the screams of all the churches killed. How to live in this country? How to cope with everyday life in the great cemetery, where the earth still wet with blood?
coming up over me so I thought - what is man, if he can in such a carefree way to kill people. Who are considered in deciding someone's life. And another question arises - when you depart this hatred in the world? Because, as he says in an interview Tochman:
genocide (...) is hidden in almost every human being. Regardless of whether you live in Rwanda, or in Poland (...). Adequate enough political circumstances, be extended in a long time and many of us will be ready to kill neighbors. Because genocide never happens spontaneously, from day to day. This lengthy process starts when the power gets mad. It starts with hate speech, and ends with mass killing and erasure.
book ends with a strange scene when Leonard, a guide to Rwanda Tochman era coming to see the inhabitants of the continent of Europe playing at the Memorial to the Holocaust victims. Such a contrast civilization with a conscience. For someone for whom life has decided that his path will lead to the cemetery, whether you like it or not, it is shocking behavior - front, party in the graves. And for us, for civilized people, how proudly we call - what is it? What is respect, peace and death? This book is for us and about us. He talks about our minds whatever we wanted to avoid that annoying theme. He says the state of our memory and consciousness. And what is it? This question everyone should answer himself, in accord with their conscience.
quotes from the book and interview, "I left God alone "(Ivy 29/luty 2011)