Rwanda

In the article 10 years later in rwanda it shows a much more horrific picture in comparassion to the article Children or the genocide because it is more descriptive, it describes the scene in the church as well as how the bodies were preserved this whole time. It also tells us of how 800,000 people died as in comparrision to the other article where it says that only 500,000 people died and there are many different numbers as they are all estimates as to how many died. Although they both convey evil very well depending on the reader, for instance to a mother or father the children in rwanda article would be much more scary as it depicts children with dead families and the thought of their families in this condition could be quite scary, but to someone who is squemish the thought of a woman without a forearm would be much more graphic then the children. The EQ i would like to refer to this article "Does evil or fear lead one to the following; experience of violence, infliction of violence and/or observation of violence" and it leads to all of these as the fear or the genocide is what makes the tutsi keep these bodies preserved for future generations and the evil in the hearts of the hutu extremists lead them to kill many many people.

Rwanda Genocide

In the article "Children of Rwanda's Genocide" published by the new york times, you are told of the Genocide in Rwanda and how the whole world wanted to turn a blind eye to it. The author tells us how more then 500,000 of the Tutsi a minority in Rwanda were killed by the Hutu extremists. The use of pictures was what was used to convey imagery as the text is not to descriptive but rather informative, there is however a case where they describe the children combing through garbage so that they can continue to live. The author is conveying a sense of darkness by telling us how 125,000 people are in jail for their crimes or how the world refused to consider the murders in Rwanda a genocide but let it be merely a civil war. It also tells us statistics such as how 90% of children in Rwanda have seen massacres and 86% had lost at least one family member from the massacres in Rwanda. The story keeps going from facts to a more descriptive wording, it is also biased against the governments of the world for not sooner acknowledging the crisis in Rwanda and merely dismissing it. The thing that impacted me the most in the article was the astonishing numbers of people killed as well as the governments negligence. The shocked me because we say it is human to help others and care and yet many leaders of the world refused to help the Tutsi who were being slaughtered at a rate of 5000 a day and merely turned a blind eye to the situation.