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This 6 page paper takes the form of a dialogue in which a group of refugees hides from those who are trying to kill them, and tries to understand their motives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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monsters? The patters is not an isolated one: its most notorious example is Nazi Germany, but the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the slaughter in Rwanda, the ongoing genocide in Darfur
and Sudan all speak to the human capacity for violence and evildoing. This paper takes the form of a dialogue among five persons hiding in a private bathroom in Rwanda
because their neighbors are trying to kill them. Discussion The situation in Rwanda is appalling: the Rwandans comprise two groups, the Hutus and Tutsis, and over the course of approximately
100 days in 1994, Hutu militia massacred hundreds of thousands of their Tutsi countrymen; the death toll is estimated at between 500,000 to a million, with most reports settling on
800,000 as the final figure (Simon, 2007). This kind of mass murder is always horrifying, but what seems to make this worse is that in many, if not most, cases,
the killers and victims knew each other. It was neighbor killing neighbor with no mercy ever given: whole families were slaughtered, often by machete; the genocide overtook the entire country.
A CBS news special talked to a Tutsi woman who survived by hiding in a tiny bathroom, just as our imaginary people do. The dialogue uses the book The Lucifer
effect as its main source; the people have been hiding in the bathroom for a week at the point we join them. They dont know theyre going to be in
there for another three months. The characters are Mr. and Mrs. Hakizimana (Frances and Pierre) and their daughter Odette, 16; Mrs. Juliet Bizimani; and Miss Fleur Ahimana, ten years old.
(The format below is not proper for either a screenplay or a play.) FLEUR: (crying) I want my mother! FRANCES: Shhh! Be quiet or theyll hear you. Do you
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