It has taken me a long time to process what happened on our trip to Rwanda this summer - July 2006. Judi Freeman and I traveled there as the second part of our grant, which first had taken us to Bosnia.

The Rwandans have decided to remember their genocide in a starkly different way to the Bosnians. The stress is on the horror of genocide - rather than the loss.  Memorials were shocking - and left me feeling numb.  I am still trying to decide how I feel about the macabre nature of so many of the memorials - that left me disoriented and disgusted. Often I felt the urge to just walk away.

The goal of this site is to tell the story of our trip, as well as to compare the post-genocidal societies ten years after the end of the madness which has deeply scarred the people of both countries.