Rwandan Genocide Speech From The Perspective of THE VICTIM

Language A and Humanities Assessment First of all I would like to thank everyone here today. I will begin with the reason that we gather here. We are here to commemorate the past and visualize a better future. We are here to grief for the dead and bring hope to the next generation. Over the last one-hundred days, over eight hundred thousand men women and children died in what is now known around the world as “A Hundred Days of Slaughter.” I know the pain and suffering you have been through, for I too was a victim of the atrocities committed by Hutu extremists who were manipulated by anti-Tutsi based media.
April sixth in the year of nineteen-ninety four will be a day that lives in infamy in the minds of the citizens of our nation, for it was on that fateful day, the powder keg burst and seas of blood started to drown the slums, streets and cities of our country.
Although the killings began in nineteen-ninety four, the hatred and prejudice against Tutsis was in the air decades before the massacres started. It all started when the Belgians, the colonizers of our country implied the law that every man, woman and child in Rwanda was forced to carry an identification card that stated whether he or she is Tutsi or Hutu. Then, as many of you know, over the past decade, tension between the Tutsi and Hutu people only strained even more, due to propaganda and manipulation through media. And of course, after decades of tension, the Hutu extremists found an excuse to start massacring us and our families. As many of you know, the massacres that happened during the last hundred days started with the assassination of our late President Habyarimana. Who is responsible for this attack? Near to none know. All we know is that our enemies, the Hutu extremists blindly blamed every Tutsi man, woman and child. And as we know, the killings started. It started small, the Hutu extremists would assassinate major Tutsi and moderate Hutu figures who were targeted even