Sympathy for the devil
"Please allow me to introduce myself....hello I'm Franco"
"Franco is with the museum", added Julie.
She'd been staying with me for the past week or so, perhaps longer. I was losing track of time in the run up to my trip to Europe. Franco worked with some genocide prevention group and had arranged for Julie to take photos for the book she was researching. She had been anxious for me to meet him and we had finally gotten around to it although the bar wasn't as animated as we had hoped.
I can't recall how the discussion got started but I was in debating mood, much to Julie’s dismay. Suddenly we were talking about the perpetrators of the genocide with Julie and Franco both agreeing that they were animals beneath contempt. Franco then stated that anyone who didn't admit that there had been a genocide in Rwanda was essentially to
be excluded from society. By then the discussion was heating up and I asked him if there was any other preconditions for entry into society. He seemed to get very angry but the point I was trying to get to and making in an extremely bad way, Julie later told me, is that if you want to prevent genocide then the people who thought that what happened
in 1994 was say, justifiable defence are the very people you need to engage in dialogue.
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"Franco is with the museum", added Julie.
She'd been staying with me for the past week or so, perhaps longer. I was losing track of time in the run up to my trip to Europe. Franco worked with some genocide prevention group and had arranged for Julie to take photos for the book she was researching. She had been anxious for me to meet him and we had finally gotten around to it although the bar wasn't as animated as we had hoped.
I can't recall how the discussion got started but I was in debating mood, much to Julie’s dismay. Suddenly we were talking about the perpetrators of the genocide with Julie and Franco both agreeing that they were animals beneath contempt. Franco then stated that anyone who didn't admit that there had been a genocide in Rwanda was essentially to
be excluded from society. By then the discussion was heating up and I asked him if there was any other preconditions for entry into society. He seemed to get very angry but the point I was trying to get to and making in an extremely bad way, Julie later told me, is that if you want to prevent genocide then the people who thought that what happened
in 1994 was say, justifiable defence are the very people you need to engage in dialogue.
---REST OF ARTICLE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST---
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