{"id":190,"date":"2006-02-28T15:13:58","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atomon.org\/?p=190"},"modified":"2006-02-28T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T21:13:58","slug":"frontline-ghosts-of-rwanda-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>13.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/ghosts\/viewers\/\"target=\"blank\">Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=atomon-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B0007TKI06%2526tag=atomon-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/B0007TKI06%25253FSubscriptionId=0ST0EYXV972YMRM2K702\" title=\"How come I failed? How come my mission failed?\"target=\"blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/B0002IQBM6.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Ghosts of Rwanda\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am fascinated by Rwanda.  What led up to the genocide, how it started and progressed, how we (the first world) did nothing to stop it and a few things to make it worse, how it continued, then ended, and how a country that&#8217;s been through something like that can even still exist without tearing itself apart.  Mostly, I guess, it&#8217;s about how this could have happened outside the grainy black and white newsreels from the 40&#8217;s, because that&#8217;s where genocide is supposed to stay.  <\/p>\n<p>Click on the text link above the picture to be taken to the Frontline site for this documentary.  It&#8217;s packed with interviews, video clips and more.  If you&#8217;d rather read, I can&#8217;t recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=atomon-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0312243359%2526tag=atomon-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0312243359%25253FSubscriptionId=0ST0EYXV972YMRM2K702\"title=\"We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda\"target=\"blank\">We Wish to Inform You&#8230;<\/a> enough.  I&#8217;ve read it twice, and I&#8217;ll read it again.  To read about genocide in the 20th century and America&#8217;s response to it, I&#8217;d suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=atomon-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0060541644%2526tag=atomon-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0060541644%25253FSubscriptionId=0ST0EYXV972YMRM2K702\"title=\"A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide\"target=\"blank\">A Problem from Hell<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13. Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda I am fascinated by Rwanda. 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