ABSTRACT
I shall never forget the last photo and captions that ripped my heart apart. It was the sweetest picture of a young man, Patrick, seven years of age, I’ve ever seen. His smile and bright sparkling eyes exuded joy. Then, I read the captions:
Name: Patrick Murinzi Minega Favorite Sport: Swimming Favorite Sweets: Chocolate Favorite Person: His Mum
Personality: Gregarious Cause of Death: Bludgeoned with Club
Over the years (during which I served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for Conflict Management at the National University of Rwanda, and on subsequent research trips when Rafiki Ubaldo, a survivor of the 1994 genocide, and I conducted interviews for our book, We Cannot
Forget: Interviews with Survivors o f the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda), I returned to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre several times in order to try to view all of the photographs and captions in the “Children s Wing .” Each and every time I’d only get so far before I was overwhelmed with sorrow, and, yet again, would depart without hav ing viewed the entire exhibit. To this day I’ve not viewed the entire exhibit.
