Last Tuesday, the Columbia/Barnard Hillel hosted Voices of Rwanda, a group dedicated to creating a platform for survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide to share their stories with the world that abandoned them 15 years ago.
The genocide, which took place between the beginning of April and the middle of July in 1994, began when Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana was murdered. Over the course of the next three months, somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Rwandans, the majority of whom belonged to the Tutsi tribe, were slaughtered.
Last Tuesday, the Columbia/Barnard Hillel hosted Voices of Rwanda, a group dedicated to creating a platform for survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide to share their stories with the world that abandoned them 15 years ago.
The genocide, which took place between the beginning of April and the middle of July in 1994, began when Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana was murdered. Over the course of the next three months, somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Rwandans, the majority of whom belonged to the Tutsi tribe, were slaughtered.
When I first heard about the human trafficking problem, I was overwhelmed by the stories of young women sold into prostitution in brothels in Cambodia, families forced into debt bondage in India, and children abducted by rebel armies and forced to fight in the ongoing Ugandan civil war.
When I first heard about the human trafficking problem, I was overwhelmed by the stories of young women sold into prostitution in brothels in Cambodia, families forced into debt bondage in India, and children abducted by rebel armies and forced to fight in the ongoing Ugandan civil war.
