Adnan Rashid – Lessons from the Rwanda Genocide

			Salam Alaikum everyone. I am currently in Rwanda visiting Genocide Memorial
		

			in 1994. Within 100 days, over a million people were killed in Rwanda. This is one of the bloodiest
war. This was one of the bloodiest genocides in the 20th century.
		

			And within 100 days,
		

			hundreds of 1000s of people in the city of Kigali, the Capitol alone were slayed killed, hacked to
death, and killed in many, many different brutal ways. And the reason why I'm making this video is
to remind everyone about the danger of dehumanization, how demonization can cause people to lose
their minds, and commit acts that cannot make any rational sense. You can look at these bones behind
me, these are remains of similar victims.
		

			These are the skulls.
		

			And these are some of the bones. And these are original skulls of the victims who had died
		

			in the genocide. So this is a history reminder of all of us that hate dehumanization.
		

			Or demonization of any people, for any reason, at any place, at any time is not acceptable, because
this is what it does. This is what it produces. This is exactly what the outcome would be. What's
happening around the world today in many different places where people are being demonized or
demonized.
		

			This is the eventual outcome.
		

			Whether it's India or whether it's Burma, Rohingya people, whether it's China, wherever it may be,
okay, where people are being demonized in the Western world, where Islamophobia is normal, where
newspapers, news reports, TV channels can easily report on people and dehumanize them. So this is
what it does. This is the outcome of such dehumanization and regret. I want to show you some of the
faces of the people who were killed in this genocide. This is a memorial where
		

			some of the profiles of the people can be found. And I'm going to share some of the pictures.
		

			Right? You can see
		

			some of these so these people are real people, they live their lives.
		

			Women, men, old young children, boys, girls, all sorts of people.
		

			They suffered as a result of dehumanization
		

			based upon
		

			racism and a sense of ethnic
		

			discrimination or superiority.
		

			So the bottom line is demonization of any type hatred, or dividing people along religious and racial
lines can often cause this to happen. This is why all humans have to come together and discourage
this kind of behavior. And stop it where it begins. Thank you