Remembering Rwanda

Dear Friend of the Fatherless,

I’m in the presence of pure evil almost every day – small children sold for their organs, preschoolers raped, child soldiers forced to kill their own families, kids plucked off of the streets and trafficked to brothels.

...and genocide.

My soul was bruised when I stood in the killing fields of Cambodia.

And my heart was wrenched this past week while visiting the places of mass bloodshed in Rwanda.

It was a murderous rampage that caused 300,000 orphans in just a 100-day period.

I invite you to read my field reports below and remember that every statistic has a story.

Sanctuary (one) – When is a place of refuge a place of horror?

Build Up or Break Down – The tools we are given can develop or destroy

Stolen – The smallest victims

Green Lights – While we plan, children are dying

Still (a poem) – The places of suffering

Sanctuary (two) - An unimaginable evil in an unlikely place

Bags, Boxes and Racks – The dead still come to gather

An Intimate Affair – Killing is hard work

Overkill? – Why all this dwelling on despair?

Please also be sure to visit Mike's and Scott's blogs for additional perspectives and reports on this Africa trip.

Until They All Have Homes,

Paul
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Comments

[Jason Kovacs]

Paul - Thank you for posting on this! Wow! This is powerful and heart-breaking. Keep sharing your thoughts and perspective. We need to hear this and see this so that we will be stirred to do what we can today.