Remembering The Rwandan Genocide Poem by Qiniso Mogale

Remembering the Rwandan Genocide
Remembering what is also known as the 'Tutsi Genocide '
Remembering the genocidal mass slaughter
Remembering how the Hutu majority slaughtered
more than 800,000 Tutsis
Yes,800,000 slaughtered during the 100-day period in 1994.

Remembering the Rwandan Genocide
Remembering the 'Tutsi Genocide '
Remembering the mass slaughter of Africans by Africans
Remembering the mass slaughter of human beings by human beings
Remembering a genocide planned by the core political elite of the Hutus
Remembering a genocide whose perpetrators came from the ranks of the Rwandan army.

Remembering the Rwandan Genocide
Remembering 'Tutsi Genocide '
People killed like flies
People buried in mass graves
Hutu civilians armed with machetes
Hutu civilians armed with clubs
Hutu civilians armed with blunt objects
Hutu civilians ordered to rape Tutsi women
Hutu civilians ordered to maim and kill their Tutsi neighbors
Hutu civilians ordered to destroy or steal Tutsi properties.

Remembering the Rwandan Genocide
Remembering the 'Tutsi Genocide'
A high rise in HIV infections because of the rapes
Babies born of rape to newly infected mothers
Many households headed by orphaned children and widows
The country's infrastructure destroyed
The economy of the country crippled.