Why telling stories about genocide matters...

Today, I read on The Economist, the obituary of Alison Des Forges. It is titled "a witness to genocide." About Rwanda. To me, her life is a testament to why telling stories about genocide, mass murder, even historical ones, matter. Recently, I was at the University of Sussex for Holocaust Memorial Day. The speakers spoke of genocide episodes that have taken place globally. The Holocaust is an epitaph, a monument, a symbolic reminder of democide, killings meted out as state policy. "We must never forget." That is the supreme message we must learn from the Holocaust, as so many of those who shared their stories with us have told us. However, we must have, we must be ignorant of the lessons, or it has not sunk deep enough. To read about Alison, click here.