«Genocide in Rwanda»

What I learned in Rwanda was that God is not absent when great evil is unleashed. Whether that evil is man-made or helped along by darker forces, God is right there, saving those who respond to His urgings and trying to heal the rest.

James Riordan

Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed to commence true reconstruction of people. Human trauma can lead to stunted growth and mass withdrawal.

Wole Soyinka

I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists, and therefore I know there is a God.

Romeo Dallaire

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

Wole Soyinka

In all my travels, I’ve never seen a country’s population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

(The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones)

Rick Warren

Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.

Stephen Kinzer

If the pictures of tens of thousands of human bodies being gnawed on by dogs do not wake us out of our apathy, I do not know what will.

Kofi Annan

We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.

(The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones)

John Rucyahana

Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that’s as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically.

Romeo Dallaire

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

Kofi Annan

The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception.

(The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones)

John Rucyahana