Here are a few stories, perspectives, and ideas that stood out to me from the heart breaking unbelievable story of the Rwandan genocide as written by a NYT journalist in the book, ‘We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families.’ The Start International Response The Aftermath
Author: Elizabeth Beeli
Both
You might speak a different language, but babies make us both smile. You might live in a different part of the equator, but we both enjoy going to the beach with our family. You might have a different major airline in your country, but we both like to laugh.
Meeting John Button
Innocent until proven guilty. But what if you’re wrongly convicted? That is John Button’s story. At the age of 19, he was wrongly convicted of murdering his girlfriend and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor at Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Even though another prisoner—a convicted serial killer—confessed to murdering John’s girlfriend minutes before…
Everything
There were barely lines to write between. Yet within the silence volumes were told. To the passerby there was nothing to see, but to me it reveled everything.
Stoic
So it is. I am at peace. I do not dwell on its ‘goodness’ or ‘badness’, it simply is.
Elizabeth Beeli 