Above pix of a Ruwandan mass grave has noting to do with the Armistice Day..nor with Congo but...
Armistice Day is the anniversary of the symbolic end of World War I on 11 November 1918. It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Rethondes, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning — the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month".
While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the ceasefire on the Western Front, there is a different remembrance i want to highlight today,especially with the current situation in Republic of Congo..
The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis by Hutu militia. Over the course of approximately 100 days, from the assassination of President Habyarimana of Ruwanda on April 6th through to mid July, at least 500,000 people were killed. Most estimates indicate a death toll of 800,000 and 1,000,000 and the incidents and events that's currently taking place today in Congo reflect the early days of the Ruwandan genocide..
lets hope we don't get to post pictures of mass graves in Congo in the future.
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