Have A Good Friday.
Hello, Everyone!
I hope all is going well. Thousands of thoughtful Winnipeg citizens are partcipating in memorial services on this solemn day. It is the yearly commemoration of the day Gods son was supposedly marched to the cross to die for all our sins.
This all good and fun but would it have not been more realistic and compassionate to have taken part in the Rwanda genocide memorial last night at the U of W? I would say there was roughly 30-40 people in attendance to acknowledge the 11 year old genocide of 800,000 real live human beings. The rwandan genocide was the horrific book end of the last century. 100 days of all out butchery. A genocide where every country on earth sat and watched from afar. A genocide that went unnoticed, unregistered, and certainly unacted upon by nearly everyone in this world.
There is not too many people from Rwanda living here in Winnipeg. This fact, to me, means the rest of us should have been more even more keen to attend the memorial to support the few citizens of Winnipeg who struggle everyday with the memories of their families being hacked to death by machetes in front of their own eyes.
I would like to extend my deepest regards to Christian Butera, Yves Vahizi, and Innocent Birasa who are here in Winnipeg doing the best they can for themselves and other victims of genocide around the world. The sadness in their eyes last night was unmistakable. I will extend those regards to all other Rwandan refugees here in Winnipeg and elsewhere as well.
On this Good Friday can I direct you, once again, to these websites regarding the worlds latest ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. In ten years please be able to say to yourself that you did something to help.
Take care. Do your best.