Thomson Newspapers
COLDTYPE
Issue 3 / 1995
EYEWITNESS RWANDA: “WORDS
CANNOT DESCRIBE…” doubt if there is any other place in the world where so many people who write for a living have used the phrase, “Words cannot describe …” You can describe how 15 women were forced to lie down in a circle outside a maternity clinic and then bludgeoned with cudgels. You can report precisely and evocatively how families hugged each other in terrified resignation as they were sliced with machetes between the pews of a Roman Catholic church. (TURN TO PAGE 2)
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