In the
article “Refusing to be silent: One Rwandan genocide survivor tells her story
to millions” published New York Amsterdam News, authors Murray, Ann Leslie
talks about how Jacqueline Murkatete will never forget about her past. When she
was nine years old her whole family mom, dad, brothers and sisters and her
grandmother all killed in 1994 Rwandan genocide. Once she left Africa she
relocated to the United States to love with her uncle in Long Island. She said
“Genocide is a global crime and is the worst crime to be killed” when she listened
to a speech form a Polish Holocaust survivor back in high school (she was 16 at
the time). She got inspired by that man. She felt like she had to tell her
story of how they massacred her family. She is trying to get herself out there
and talk to students, adults, politicians so it will be well known what it is
really all about. She has won numerous awards like the “Global Peace and Tolerance
honor from the United Nations. According to the article it says that early next
year Jacqueline has a plan to build a community center in Kigali the capital of
Rwanda. To help any survivors with the tools to the victimization to healing.
When I read this article I didn’t really understand what Genocide was really about. As I started to read more and more into the story I realized that it was worse than I thought. She watched her whole family die I was mind blown. If that was me I’m not sure what I would do either run away. When I was older I would defiantly fight back. I thought it was a good idea to have her get her story out to the public to know this is a horrific crime and should be illegal around the whole world. What got my attention was she wanted to build a community center for people that have had a really bad past to help them out I thought that was cool.
