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Genocide, Religion, and Modernity
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 11-13, 1997
"In a number of communities where I conducted research, people testified that pastors and priests and other church employees participated in the violence that occurred. Church personnel were apparently involved in meetings held in mid-April in which the organizers of the genocide told mayors in the southern prefectures of Butare, Gikongoro, and Gitarama, many of whom had resisted the genocide and protected their Tutsi citizens, that they would be removed if they did not support the genocide. It was immediately after these meetings that the massacres began in these areas."
It's painful to read, though.
Still we must. Not to pin blame then call it a day, but to understand how things like that can occur, and what that can teach any of us.