Volume 18, No.2, Winter 2005

Volume 18, No.2, Winter 2005

Excerpt: from Annette Schouten Woudstra's Swallow the Black Seeds

Beginning in April 1994, in a period of only about one hundred days, nearly a million people were brutally murdered here. Under eucalyptus and banana trees, on hills planted with tea and corn, in the deep ditches beside the dirt roads, in the small African country of Rwanada. They were mostly cut to pieces with machetes. Ther were killed by neighbours and sometimes by relatives. Often the mayor or a priest organized rounding them up into hospitals or churches to be executed together in one horrific assault. Whole families were thrown into latrines. infants and grandparents and pregnant women. Ten-year-old boys and favourite aunts. Philosophers, musicians, shoemakers and farmers.

 

 

Contributors

Louis E. Bourgeois

Mary Cresswell

Carol Dragish

Sigrid Forberg

John-James Ford

Heather Frechette

Greg Grace

Jason Guriel

Cornelia Hoogland

Donna Kane

Bogdan Koral-Konikowski

Mark Laliberte

Susan Larcombe

Penny Leong Brown

Dan MacIssac

Carol Matthews

Greg Moglia

Elain McCluskey 

IzabellaOrzlski-Konikowski

Suzume Shi

Tina Silver

Anne Sorbie

Annette Schouten Woudstra

Deborah-Anne Tunney  

Feature artist: Carol Dragich