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We Are All Rwandans
By Catherine Larson

Submitted: 4/6/2009

An Excerpt from As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God. (Don Williams Jr.)

Even though the gunshots were distant, they made Phanuel‟s pulse race. Living near the RPF base, the students dismissed the noise as RPF soldiers scaring away a thief somewhere nearby, but Phanuel had a strange sense of foreboding.

He remembered how his father had called his family together to pray during the genocide. Phanuel said to his classmates, about twenty-four in Senior Six, “I think we should pray.” Many of the students followed Phanuel‟s lead and closed their eyes, saying short prayers to God, but then, mostly unalarmed, went back to their studying.


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