Genocide
February 17, 2006 9:14 AM Subscribe
"No person has the right to punish themselves," said Benoit Kaboyi, executive secretary of Rwanda's largest association of genocide survivors. "They have to suffer for what they have done."
That's just silly. And suicide isn't always irrational (although saying that scares a lot of people). Suicide for many people means the only thing they can control, when everything else is out of their control. I would be willing to wager that for many of these people it was about that - as well as a sense of justice/remorse/conscience that they deserved death for their crimes.
posted by spock at 10:27 AM on February 17, 2006
That's just silly. And suicide isn't always irrational (although saying that scares a lot of people). Suicide for many people means the only thing they can control, when everything else is out of their control. I would be willing to wager that for many of these people it was about that - as well as a sense of justice/remorse/conscience that they deserved death for their crimes.
posted by spock at 10:27 AM on February 17, 2006
This might be an appropriate place to post this (NYTimes) as a follow up to this cambodia thread. Sigh. Genocide filter is depressing.
posted by jrb223 at 10:39 AM on February 17, 2006
posted by jrb223 at 10:39 AM on February 17, 2006
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